From: lore <no.spam@here.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: copying and pasting in emacs
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:57:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wmfi1vv.fsf@here.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 640dcabc-d78f-4006-901f-2689297ea79a@w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com
luca pamparana wrote:
> 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.
,----
| C-@ runs the command set-mark-command, which is an interactive
| compiled Lisp function.
|
| It is bound to C-SPC, C-@.
`----
Then you can move (M-b, M-f, C-p, C-n or so...)
Do not forget transient-mark-mode.
--
Systems.Administrators.like.things.automated.
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2009-04-05 14:17 copying and pasting in emacs luca.pamparana
2009-04-05 14:56 ` Richard Riley
2009-04-05 14:57 ` lore [this message]
2009-04-05 15:45 ` Nurullah Akkaya
2009-04-05 16:06 ` rustom
2009-04-05 17:48 ` Drew Adams
2009-04-05 17:53 ` Peter Finn
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2009-04-05 21:43 ` B. T. Raven
2009-04-06 7:29 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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2009-05-02 23:50 ` David Combs
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2009-04-06 9:07 Bourgneuf Francois
2009-04-06 9:42 ` Daniel Dalton
2009-04-06 14:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-04-06 14:56 ` Renaud Casenave-Péré
[not found] ` <mailman.4706.1239028278.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-02 23:59 ` David Combs
2009-04-06 9:47 Daniel Dalton
2009-04-06 14:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-04-06 21:40 ` Daniel Dalton
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