From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: copying and pasting in emacs
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 10:48:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003701c9b616$c86c3440$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505e7832-81c1-44a8-97fd-5b2db5073b7d@v1g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
> > I am unable to figure out how to select and copy text as
> > you would do in another editors:
> >
> > For example, one thing I normally need to do is select from the
> > current position upto the next few words. Normally, I just
> > press shift + ctrl and the left or right arrow key and the
> > editor would highlight one word at a time. I have so far been
> > unable to figure out how to highlight text in emacs using the
> > keyboard.
> >
> > Anyone knows how I can do it esp. highlighting one word,
> > line etc. at a time.
>
> See cua-mode and related stuff
> (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CuaMode)
CUA mode is not for everyone, and is not necessarily the best place to start
looking into this question, IMO.
This is the overall category - active "region" means (~) "selection":
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en?CategoryRegion
(I just added CuaMode to that page, BTW; it was missing.)
These are some entries at that page which are good starting points:
* http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/Region - meaning and behavior of the region
* http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/DefaultKillingAndYanking - vanilla Emacs
behavior and terminology for copy/paste
* http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/CopyAndPaste - alternatives (including CUA
mode) to the vanilla Emacs copy/paste behavior
See also the Emacs manual, node Transient Mark:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Transient-Mark.html#Tra
nsient-Mark
My own recommendation (not CUA mode), FWIW:
* http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/DeleteSelectionMode
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-05 14:17 copying and pasting in emacs luca.pamparana
2009-04-05 14:56 ` Richard Riley
2009-04-05 14:57 ` lore
2009-04-05 15:45 ` Nurullah Akkaya
2009-04-05 16:06 ` rustom
2009-04-05 17:48 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-04-05 17:53 ` Peter Finn
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2009-04-05 21:43 ` B. T. Raven
2009-04-06 7:29 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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2009-05-02 23:50 ` David Combs
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2009-04-06 9:07 Bourgneuf Francois
2009-04-06 9:42 ` Daniel Dalton
2009-04-06 14:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-04-06 14:56 ` Renaud Casenave-Péré
[not found] ` <mailman.4706.1239028278.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-02 23:59 ` David Combs
2009-04-06 9:47 Daniel Dalton
2009-04-06 14:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-04-06 21:40 ` Daniel Dalton
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