From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ctrl-x Ctrl-x (exchange-point-and-mark) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 23:01:28 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <874oifa2tz.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291825632 11816 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 16:27:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:27:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 17:27:08 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQMrE-00061U-Fn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:27:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53354 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQMrD-00056h-Lb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:27:07 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1273525289 13854 143.93.54.11 (10 May 2010 21:01:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 21:01:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:g6VbCm0dah7H0gVhwnoTN1aE8HA= Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-196-025.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178111 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75605 Archived-At: Harry Putnam 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