From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rectangle mode selection Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 00:52:37 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <85075544-221e-4cea-9beb-030c6944c654@r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com> References: <8fc8086c-3f5e-4483-9e6a-958c86198f70@y36g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <87wrkd72fw.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299404448 7536 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2011 09:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 09:40:48 +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 Mar 06 10:40:43 2011 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 1PwASB-0000xG-Hy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:40:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwASB-0005AT-17 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:40:43 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1299401557 6658 127.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2011 08:52:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 08:52:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185663 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:79818 Archived-At: On Mar 6, 6:40=A0am, Le Wang wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > rusi writes: > > > >http://vimeo.com/1168225?pg=3Dembed&sec=3D1168225 > > > This is kind of an old thread now, but I just got around to watching > > and trying to do like in the video there. > > > I don't see anything like that behavior so assuming I haven't set > > something. > > > Posters/bloggers there seem to be pretty ecstatic about it so I must be > > doing > > something wrong. > > > In the video there is no mention of any special mode other than > > cua-mode. > > > I hear no sound so assuming there is none.. > > I hear sound. > > When I emulate the video by creating an html file and enter cua-mode, > > > I don't see anything even vaguely like what occurs in the video. =A0No > > rectangle is selected, no block entries or motions seem possible, > > etc. > > The audio describes what's going on. =A0He pressed C-enter to start selec= ting > a rectangle. > > -- > Le (info "(emacs)Cua bindings") has a brief mention of rectangle commands. So you 1. ensure that cua-mode is on 2. get into 'tr Unfortunately trying to track some of them