From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: getting out of text selection in emacs 23
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:21:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ab2x6gof.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d773fa5-c39b-43e0-b0c4-fa379b4ace6d@13g2000prl.googlegroups.com>
> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:00:12 -0700 (PDT)
>
> in emacs23, often when i have a text selection, i can't deselect it
> with Ctrl+g. Sometimes pressing Ctrl+g twice works, sometimes not and
> i have to move cursor first then Ctrl+g, or do a copy to get rid of
> the selection.
>
> is this just me or something in emacs23?
Please describe how you select the text when that happens. There are
several different ways to select, each one with its own peculiarities
(and features). Also, if this isn't in "emacs -Q", please tell what
is the setting of transient-mark-mode.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-21 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-21 13:00 getting out of text selection in emacs 23 Xah Lee
2009-07-21 15:00 ` Wang Lei
2009-07-21 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-07-21 18:21 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2932.1248200470.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-21 20:15 ` Xah Lee
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=83ab2x6gof.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.