marked text highlighting

marked text highlighting

[Matthias Knelangen]

Hi,
when I'm marking text with the mouse in GNU emacs, it'll be
highlighted, but when I'm doing it via the keyboard (C-space) it won't.
How do I enable the mark highlighting for keyboard text selection?

regards
Matthias Knelangen

Re: marked text highlighting

[David Hansen]

On 6 Feb 2006 05:06:24 -0800 Matthias Knelangen wrote:

> when I'm marking text with the mouse in GNU emacs, it'll be
> highlighted, but when I'm doing it via the keyboard (C-space) it won't.
> How do I enable the mark highlighting for keyboard text selection?

add

(transient-mark-mode 1)

to your ~/.emacs.  But better C-h f transient-mark-mode RET
first.  This will break some useful stuff.

If you use the developer version of emacs you can enable
transient-mark-mode temporally by hitting C-SPC twice.

David

Re: marked text highlighting

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.02.2006 um 14:28 schrieb David Hansen:

> But better C-h f transient-mark-mode RET first.  This will break  
> some useful stuff.

Which? Undo, could be. I see mostly an advantage when I can restrict  
changes or actions to an area I have marked before ...

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Re: marked text highlighting

[David Hansen]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:47:14 +0100 Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 06.02.2006 um 14:28 schrieb David Hansen:
>
>> But better C-h f transient-mark-mode RET first.  This will
>> break  some useful stuff.
>
> Which? Undo, could be. I see mostly an advantage when I can
> restrict  changes or actions to an area I have marked before
> ...

Easyly done with C-SPC C-SPC (at least in the devel
version).  I use C-x C-x a lot and would miss it.  But thats
probably only just my editing habits.

David

Re: marked text highlighting

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.02.2006 um 14:06 schrieb Matthias Knelangen:

> when I'm marking text with the mouse in GNU emacs, it'll be
> highlighted, but when I'm doing it via the keyboard (C-space) it  
> won't.
> How do I enable the mark highlighting for keyboard text selection?
>

It might have to do with transient-mark-mode. Check it and set it to t.

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RE: marked text highlighting

[Drew Adams]

    when I'm marking text with the mouse in GNU emacs, it'll be
    highlighted, but when I'm doing it via the keyboard (C-space) it won't.
    How do I enable the mark highlighting for keyboard text selection?

Transient mark mode: M-x transient-mark-mode

You might also want to look at Delete Selection mode, which uses transient
mark mode: M-x delete-selection-mode