From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: luca.pamparana@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: copying and pasting in emacs Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 07:17:02 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <640dcabc-d78f-4006-901f-2689297ea79a@w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238942462 3189 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2009 14:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 14:41:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 05 16:42:20 2009 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 1LqTYB-0000Uv-3R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:42:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35198 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LqTWn-0007wt-4B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:40:53 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.113.121.0 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238941022 17729 127.0.0.1 (5 Apr 2009 14:17:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 14:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.113.121.0; posting-account=D3FzDwoAAABdMDXitkUrPM9nBOvcbWaj User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032711 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.8, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168211 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:63494 Archived-At: Hello, I am unable to figure out how to select and copy text as you would do in another editors: For example, one thing I normally need to do is select from the current position upto the next few words. Normally, I just press shift + ctrl and the left or right arrow key and the editor would highlight one word at a time. I have so far been unable to figure out how to highlight text in emacs using the keyboard. Anyone knows how I can do it esp. highlighting one word, line etc. at a time. Many thanks, Luca