From: Decebal <CLDWesterhof@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is there no selected region in the second case
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:42:15 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5cc30fbe-4f2b-4efa-ba88-39abf37cedb7@v15g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.20263.1222794037.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Sep 30, 7:00 pm, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote:
> Decebal <CLDWester...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The first push-mark works and I can delete with delete-region. But the
> > second does not work. There is no region selected after the last two
> > statements. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Actually the second one works, too. However, in Emacs, the region is
> visually highlighted only when the mark is "active".
>
> Are you sure you want to activate the mark, though? Normally you would
> save the position in a variable, something like this:
>
> (save-excursion
> (goto-char (point-min))
> (let ((beg (point)))
> (re-search-forward "^=" nil t)
> (forward-line 2)
> (delete-region beg (point))))
That is much better yes. I allready did something like that:
(goto-char (point-min))
(re-search-forward "^=" nil nil)
(forward-line 2)
(delete-region (point-min) (point))
(re-search-forward "^=" nil nil)
(beginning-of-line)
(delete-region (point) (point-max))
Because the buffer has to be deleted from the beginning, I do not need
to save the point. But otherwise it should be done offcourse.
Thanks for the info.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-29 16:30 Why is there no selected region in the second case Decebal
2008-09-30 17:00 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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2008-10-01 7:42 ` Decebal [this message]
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