From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ctrl-x Ctrl-x (exchange-point-and-mark)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 23:01:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874oifa2tz.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10.1273520565.11383.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> I see there are no customizing option matching
> `exchange-point-and-mark' (Ctrl-x Ctrl-x)
>
> I wondered if I can do anyghing about the current behavior where when
> the exchange is made, the area in between is selected and highlighted.
>
> I don't want to turn off the newish behavior of how regions are
> selected, where it takes two strikes of spc bar to turn it off. I
> know there is a way to turn that off, but wondered if I might be able
> to ditch that un-wanted behavior some other way.
You could invert the meaning of the prefix arg with some advice.
(defadvice exchange-point-and-mark (before negate-interactive-arg activate)
"Logically negate the interactive ARG."
(interactive
(list (not current-prefix-arg))))
-ap
next parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-10 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.10.1273520565.11383.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-10 21:01 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2010-05-10 19:42 Ctrl-x Ctrl-x (exchange-point-and-mark) Harry Putnam
2010-05-10 20:34 ` Sean Sieger
2010-05-11 10:53 ` Harry Putnam
2010-05-11 11:47 ` Richard Riley
2010-05-11 13:21 ` Harry Putnam
2010-05-11 14:06 ` Tim Visher
2010-05-11 22:02 ` Harry Putnam
2010-05-13 14:43 ` Tim Visher
2010-05-14 1:30 ` Harry Putnam
2010-05-11 14:07 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.3.1273575216.918.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-11 11:38 ` Barry Margolin
2010-05-16 9:47 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-05-10 21:10 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-05-16 10:50 ` Uday S Reddy
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