From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can I use movement commands to refine a mouse-defined region?
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:59:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83io0un7i4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2a8m7gd71.fsf@tenpoint.co.nz> (message from Nick Helm on Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:38:10 +1300)
> From: Nick Helm <nick@tenpoint.co.nz>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:38:10 +1300
>
> I usually define a region by firstly setting the mark with C-SPC, moving
> point with some combination of C-f, C-b, C-n, C-p etc, then acting on the
> highlighted region.
>
> Occasionally, I use the mouse to define the region using click and drag.
> This, I presume, sets the mark on button down and moves point with the
> drag.
>
> Sometimes though, my mousing is not as accurate as it could be and I
> would like to refine the region by moving point with C-f, C-b etc.
> However, any movement keys immediately deactivates the defined region
> and removes the region highlight.
Use shifted arrow keys, they don't deactivate the region.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-10 4:38 Can I use movement commands to refine a mouse-defined region? Nick Helm
2016-03-10 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-03-11 0:50 ` Nick Helm
2016-03-10 13:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
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