From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Highlighting the region Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:09:40 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <6v0e87-ff4.ln1@news.eternal-september.org> References: <20100401054533.GA16767@tomas> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270112323 12953 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2010 08:58:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:58:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 01 10:58:39 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxGEY-0001ky-WC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:58:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxGEL-0001vc-Ti for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:58:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxGDe-0001vW-Nl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40337 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxGDT-0001uu-WB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxGD7-0003Mz-FL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:40952) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxGD5-0003Mc-Tk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:57:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxGD2-0001G9-QZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:57:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:57:04 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:57:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:72557 Archived-At: tomas@tuxteam.de writes: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:51:43PM -0400, Rancier, Jeff wrote: >> Hi, > >> [...] I don't see anything when I hit C-space to mark the >> region. I'm I missing something here? query-replace-regexp highlights >> OK. > > Hmm. I don't know whether I interpret you correctly, but if I do: > > when you typee C-space, you *anchor* the region (i.e. you set the > beginning of it). Its end is at "point" (that is, the cursor) -- so it > now most-probably has zero width. Once you start moving point, you > should "see" a region, spanning the buffer portion between "mark" > (that's where you hit C-space) and "point" thats where you moved (the > cursor) to). > > Regards > -- tomás > Emacs 21? Transient mark mode is not default in emacs 21. Seems rather old version to be using. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mark.html