From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mouse-less emacs Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:06:53 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4972ac93-2609-432e-a8bc-4efbb599ed59@q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201300844 26236 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2008 22:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 25 23:41:04 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 1JIXEN-0006Fx-86 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:41:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIXDw-0002hF-Sd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.236.102.115 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1201298814 28281 127.0.0.1 (25 Jan 2008 22:06:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:06:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.236.102.115; posting-account=qPxGtQkAAADb6PWdLGiWVucht1ZDR6fn User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12.2, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155579 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:50965 Archived-At: all you have to do is turn on the CUA mode. i quote from my emacs tutorial http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs.html First, turn on the CUA mode, under the menu =E2=80=9COptions=E2=80=A3C-x/C-c= /C-v Cut and Paste (CUA)=E2=80=9D then select =E2=80=9COptions=E2=80=A3Save Options= =E2=80=9D This achieve 4 things: (1) Cut/Copy/Paste has shortcuts with x/c/v keys; (2) Text selection will be highlighted; (3) Typing while a region is selected will delete/over-ride it. (4) Text selection can be done by holding down the Shift key and press a arrow key. you can get a visual template of default keyboard shortcuts, or instructions how to define any shortcuts, from my tutorial above. Xah xah@xahlee.org =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84