From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: copy paragraph Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:21:23 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Message-ID: References: <874q0xb13p.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144968077 23243 80.91.229.2 (13 Apr 2006 22:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 14 00:41:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUAV1-0002rD-EW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUAV0-0007oZ-U5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:41:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!0847253b!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.159.32.50 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net Original-X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1144966883 4.159.32.50 (Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:21:23 PDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:21:23 PDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138739 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:34357 Archived-At: "Gary Wessle" wrote in message news:874q0xb13p.fsf@localhost.localdomain... > Hi > > I am trying to copy paragraph under point and by binding C-cp like this > (global-set-key "\C-cp" "\M-A-{\C-@\M-A-}\M-w") > not working, could some one check it. > > thank you M-h M-w puts a copy of the paragraph surrounding point into the kill-ring. On my keyboard this is no slower than C-cp but a standard keyboard layout may not allow you to touch type those keychords. Still you can hold down the Meta(Alt) key with one finger and hw with the other hand. Ed.