From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Binding C-a to select all Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:52:24 +0200 Message-ID: <4861F938.4070801@gmail.com> References: <860891f5-ebe7-4813-a63a-50449b7df59a@g16g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214380384 28949 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2008 07:53:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Davin Pearson Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 09:53:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KBPp7-0000PC-94 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:53:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBPoH-0006E0-O9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBPnv-0006DY-Pu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBPnu-0006DA-8G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58312 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBPnu-0006D0-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:20533) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBPnt-0002Dq-Do for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBPnr-0007Ov-P4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:60271 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KBPnq-0001rM-98; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:52:31 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <860891f5-ebe7-4813-a63a-50449b7df59a@g16g2000pri.googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080625-0, 2008-06-25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KBPnq-0001rM-98. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KBPnq-0001rM-98 02599e6cfca8b9ac180a51497583d8e0 X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:55074 Archived-At: Davin Pearson wrote: > On Jun 25, 3:19 pm, "B. T. Raven" wrote: >> (define-key global-map [(control a)] 'mark-whole-buffer) > > Thank you for your help but there is problem with the above code in > that it doesn't highlight the region in the face "region" or "primary- > selection". Please advise me how I can go about getting this > functionality online. Since you use the arrow keys you might want cua-mode or cua-selection-mode.