From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neon Absentius Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Select an entire paragraph Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:46:51 +0000 Message-ID: <20050818204651.GB5502@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124398776 6877 80.91.229.2 (18 Aug 2005 20:59:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:59:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 18 22:59:34 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5rTG-0003fA-9w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:58:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5rWn-00023u-Hf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:02:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5rSn-0000Cd-M9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5rSc-00005e-Rh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5rSa-0008NV-9N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:58:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.94.73.21] (helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E5rYB-0003Tc-Th for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:03:48 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:absent@otaku.freeshell.org [192.94.73.2]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7IKkpGR015062 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:46:51 GMT Original-Received: (from absent@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.8/Submit) id j7IKkp7W017124 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:46:51 GMT Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: Neon Absentius , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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:28831 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28831 On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 05:19:34PM -0400, user@domain.invalid wrote: > Hello, > Sorry if this is not the correct forum for this. Is there a way to > quickly select an entire paragraph (block of text surounded by > new/blank) lines? Move to the begining of the first line of the paragraph and type C- C- (in case that these bindings don't work on your system the commands are set-mark-command followed by forward-paragraph.) hth > > TIA, > > John -- Charity in capitalism is like urinating to extinguish a forest fire. -- Neon Absentius