From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ctrl-x Ctrl-x (exchange-point-and-mark)
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 11:50:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hsoil3$2em$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3x3wnkq.fsf@newsguy.com>
On 5/10/2010 8:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 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.
If you put the following advice in your .emacs file, normal C-x C-x will have the effect of C-u C-x C-x and vice versa.
(defadvice exchange-point-and-mark (before toggled-mark activate)
"Toggle activation of mark for exchange-point-and-mark."
(interactive "P")
(ad-set-arg 0 (null (ad-get-arg 0))))
This doesn't quite do what I would have liked myself. Ideally, C-x C-x should keep the mark active if it is already active and refrain from activating it afresh. This advice ends up deactivating the mark. Can anybody beef up the advice more to get the better behavior?
Cheers,
Uday
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-16 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
[not found] <mailman.10.1273520565.11383.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-10 21:01 ` Andreas Politz
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