From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ctrl-x Ctrl-x (exchange-point-and-mark) Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 10:47:04 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87d3x3wnkq.fsf@newsguy.com> <87632vcx8b.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274003408 24564 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2010 09:50:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 09:50:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 16 11:50:07 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1ODaU2-00049C-Ln for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 May 2010 11:50:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODaU2-0004bV-2a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 May 2010 05:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43542 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODaRQ-0003tt-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 May 2010 05:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODaRO-0001b8-JI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 May 2010 05:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54214) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODaRO-0001aq-Dn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 May 2010 05:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODaRL-0002Zy-Uy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 May 2010 11:47:19 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com ([92.232.137.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2010 11:47:19 +0200 Original-Received: from u.s.reddy by cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2010 11:47:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <87632vcx8b.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:73658 Archived-At: On 5/10/2010 9:34 PM, Sean Sieger wrote: > Harry Putnam writes: > > I see there are no customizing option matching > `exchange-point-and-mark' (Ctrl-x Ctrl-x) > > C-g doesn't suit you? There is at least one situation where C-g doesn't suit me (or any one, for that matter). Once you set the mark down and start an incremental-search, you can't type C-g because that would cancel the search. The highlighting then feels incredibly sticky. Cheers, Uday