From: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I highlight word at point?
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:52:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0810190852m6e50c007h7f54ea7e00a71626@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87skqsmxc7.fsf@kobe.laptop>
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Giorgos Keramidas
<keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:09:09 +0200, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
>>> Please include the full question in the body of the post too in
>>> future posts. It makes things much easier to read in some
>>> environments :-)
>>
>> eh ? what kind of environment are you using ?
>> It looks like it's high time to update ;)
>
> It should be easy to find out: Gnus. It's shown in the User-Agent
> header of my posts, and I'm actually quite fond of it.
>
yes, I saw that but you seem to have missed the ';)'
> I wasn't referring to *my* environment, which is mostly `ok' for all my
> email and news needs. There are news readers that go out of their way
> to _hide_ the header though.
never hear about them.
>>> I think what you asked may be done by typing `M-b M-@'.
>>
>> M-b is bind to 'backward-word'.
>>
>> Which function 'M-b M-@' is bind in your "special" environment ?
>
> M-b is backward-word, but I should have written a more clear explanation
> of what I was aiming for.
>
> Yes, `M-@' is bound to `mark-word'. The important detail is that the
> `mark-word' function selects the part of the word that is _after_ the
> current location of the point.
>
> So if the current `point' is already at the start of a word, then `M-@'
> will do the right thing.
>
> When the point is in the middle of a word, however, you can move the
> point to the start of the current word with `M-b' and then use `M-@' to
> mark the full word.
>
yes sorry I stupidely did 'C-h k' and try to type your suggestion.
--
Francis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-19 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-19 2:16 How do I highlight word at point? Wei Weng
2008-10-19 3:02 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-10-19 12:09 ` Francis Moreau
2008-10-19 16:19 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.1504.1224419414.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-19 13:24 ` Thorsten Bonow
2008-10-19 15:54 ` Francis Moreau
2008-10-19 15:14 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-10-19 15:52 ` Francis Moreau [this message]
2008-10-29 22:13 ` Francis Moreau
2008-10-29 22:44 ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-30 20:22 ` Francis Moreau
2008-10-30 13:57 ` Scott Frazer
2008-10-19 5:44 ` Xah
2008-10-19 17:00 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.1521.1224435664.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-19 20:10 ` Xah
2008-10-19 22:16 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-19 23:58 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.1544.1224460736.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-20 3:46 ` Xah
2008-10-20 12:31 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.1579.1224505887.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-20 18:43 ` Xah
2008-10-21 8:57 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-19 23:35 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-19 23:39 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-21 3:43 ` htbest2000
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