newbie: selecting a line in emacs

newbie: selecting a line in emacs

[Saket Sathe]

hi,
How do I select an entire line in emacs for yanking/pasting etc.
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Re: newbie: selecting a line in emacs

[Denis Bueno]

C-a C-SPC C-e


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:08:52 +0530, Saket Sathe <saket@cc.iitb.ac.in> wrote:
> hi,
> How do I select an entire line in emacs for yanking/pasting etc.
> --
> Saket.
> 
> ... No word is ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
> 
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Re: newbie: selecting a line in emacs

[Greg Rowe]

Saket Sathe wrote:
> hi,
> How do I select an entire line in emacs for yanking/pasting etc.

In emacs the "selection" is all the text between the point (where the 
cursor is) and the mark (where you set the mark last using C-space). 
Normally the "selection" is not visible because the selection is ALWAYS 
active.  In many other editors selections are not always active.

A lot of emacs users like using transient mark mode.  This mode will 
highlight the active "selection" and slightly changes the behavior of 
emacs to be a bit more like other editors.  You can enable this mode 
with M-x transient-mark-mode.  If you run M-x transient-mark-mode a 
second time it will turn it off.

In transient mark mode to disable an active selection you can hit C-g. 
So if you want to kill/cut some text you would hit C-space at the 
beginning of your selection and then move to the end of your selection. 
  Then C-w to put the text into the kill ring (to cut it).

To disable the active selection in transient mark mode use C-g.

Greg

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Re: newbie: selecting a line in emacs

[Saket Sathe]

Hi,
It works! But isnt there a shorter/better way of doing it .


Denis Bueno wrote:

>C-a C-SPC C-e
>
>
>On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:08:52 +0530, Saket Sathe <saket@cc.iitb.ac.in> wrote:
>  
>
>>hi,
>>How do I select an entire line in emacs for yanking/pasting etc.
>>--
>>Saket.
>>
>>... No word is ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>Help-gnu-emacs mailing list
>>Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
>>
>>    
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>
>
>  
>


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Re: newbie: selecting a line in emacs

[Denis Bueno]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:39:16 +0530, Saket Sathe <saket@cc.iitb.ac.in> wrote:
> Hi,
> It works! But isnt there a shorter/better way of doing it .

Emacs is nearly infinitely customizable, so, you could bind your own
key to it. (see `global-set-key'.)

Also, you could use the mouse, if you're into that sort of thing.

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RE: newbie: selecting a line in emacs

[Drew Adams]

    >C-a C-SPC C-e

    It works! But isnt there a shorter/better way of doing it .

Yes, triple-click the line with the mouse (MB1). Of course, that's only
easier if you use the mouse often - if you keep your hands on the keyboard,
then triple-clicking is harder, not easier.

 - Drew

Re: newbie: selecting a line in emacs

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Saket Sathe <saket@cc.iitb.ac.in> writes:

> >On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:08:52 +0530, Saket Sathe <saket@cc.iitb.ac.in> wrote:
> >
> >>How do I select an entire line in emacs for yanking/pasting etc.
>
> Denis Bueno wrote:
> 
> >C-a C-SPC C-e
>
> It works! But isnt there a shorter/better way of doing it .

\ = mouse-down
/ = mouse-up
_ = drag


Triple-left-click on the line works as well in emacs in X as in any
other GUI application \/\/\/ .

To select a single word, double-left-click on the word: \/\/ .  You
can also select several words: double-left-click on the first word and
drag up to the last word \/\_______/ .

Also, you can put the mark with single-left-click \/ , and move the
point with single-right-click \/ .

In X, the selection is automatically "copied", you can paste it with
middle-click \/ pointing to the place where you want it pasted, or
"yanking" with C-y.


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