From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do I highlight word at point? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:57:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1224382569.209484@nntp.acecape.com> <8403dd42-f1a6-41fa-91d0-fa8b2a873932@u40g2000pru.googlegroups.com> <1ed6498a-19fc-42f2-b00c-b369e74396b1@p10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <9d7c202b-1851-4a3d-a895-de41c876e314@s9g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224579527 24994 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2008 08:58:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:58:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Xah Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 10:59:45 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 4.50) id 1KsD5c-0004xH-93 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:59:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48799 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsD4W-0005x0-OM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsD3f-0005wv-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsD3c-0005wA-6J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:57:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42531 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsD3c-0005w1-0U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:36092) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsD3c-0004Fr-5U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (BAH6f85.bah.pppool.de [77.135.111.133]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0A78180926D7; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:57:37 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <9d7c202b-1851-4a3d-a895-de41c876e314@s9g2000prm.googlegroups.com> (Xah's message of "Mon\, 20 Oct 2008 11\:43\:55 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:58974 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > ummm... doesn't seems to work? > > suppose i have > > ( "this that" [more ]) > > and cursor is on the word =E2=80=9Cthat=E2=80=9D. > > I invoke this command twice, it selects the whole paren? Did you try it in an emacs-lisp buffer? In other buffers the quotation mark might not have the right syntax table entry. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher