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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mark set by ?mark-*? not deactivated by point motion
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:45:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831s9rghbv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2hrw5vl.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de)

> From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:45:50 +0200
> 
> So if I have
> 
>   able baker charlie
> 
> and do `M-@' while on 'k',
> 
>          ker
> 
> is selected.  If I move left to 'a', then
> 
>   able baker
> 
> is selected.  If instead I move right to the final 'e', then
> 
>              charlie
> 
> including the space in front of the 'c' is selected.
> 
> Is that supposed to happen?

Yes.

> What's the use-case for the moving-right behaviour?

To allow you to adjust the beginning of the region.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-18 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-17 17:25 Mark set by ‘mark-*’ not deactivated by point motion Yuri Khan
2018-09-17 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-17 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17 19:39   ` Mark set by ?mark-*? " Drew Adams
2018-09-18  6:24   ` Mark set by ‘mark-*’ " Yuri Khan
     [not found]   ` <mailman.897.1537213211.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-18  8:45     ` Mark set by ?mark-*? " Loris Bennett
2018-09-18 11:45       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]       ` <mailman.918.1537271124.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-19  6:33         ` Loris Bennett

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