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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 22:25:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjobdoh9.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20131208190052.GA12293@doriath.local

Hi Ernest,

> one of the things I like about running emacs in a terminal is that I can
> select text without moving the point; is it possible to do the same when
> running in a graphical interface (GTK)?

This is not possible with the default selection, since point is, by
definition, one border of the selection.

But what you describe sounds like a description of the secondary selection:

  (info "(emacs) Secondary Selection")


Michael.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-08 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-08 19:00 select text without moving the point in graphical interface Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-08 19:11 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-08 19:34   ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-08 20:24     ` Drew Adams
2013-12-08 20:41       ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-08 22:13         ` Drew Adams
2013-12-09  1:53           ` Bob Proulx
2013-12-09  3:45           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <<83fvq2znym.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-12-09  5:17             ` Drew Adams
2013-12-09 16:20               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <<83bo0qyp1d.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-12-09 18:16                 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-09 18:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                   ` <<8338m1zxfj.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-12-09 18:59                     ` Drew Adams
2013-12-08 21:25 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2013-12-08 22:58   ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-09 19:26     ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-12-10 18:58       ` Ernest Adrogué
2013-12-10 19:02         ` Drew Adams
2013-12-10 19:13         ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-12-10 19:26           ` Ernest Adrogué

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