From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ctrl-x Ctrl-x (exchange-point-and-mark)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:02:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pr12rtap.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTikXOuYKrZokXNHI6gkMemXJ7EqHGkcUxsVSsoDj@mail.gmail.com
Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
> Am I understanding correctly that what you're trying to accomplish is
> to not have the current region highlighted when you C-x C-x?
Your understanding it alright, just missing what was in the OP:
Harry wrote in OP:
> > I don't want to turn off the newish behavior of how regions are
> > selected, where it takes two strikes of spc bar to turn it off. I
> > know there is a way to turn that off, but wondered if I might be
> > able to ditch that un-wanted behavior some other way.
> Another option that would avoid transient-mark-mode would be to use
> pop-global-mark with `C-u C-SPC` instead of `C-x C-x` which doesn't
> leave the mark active, if your only goal is to return to a previous
> location and forget about the current location.
That is a good one to know but I mostly do flip back and forth, but
thanks for the tip... I didn't know about C-u C-spc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-11 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-10 19:42 Ctrl-x Ctrl-x (exchange-point-and-mark) Harry Putnam
2010-05-10 20:34 ` Sean Sieger
2010-05-11 10:53 ` Harry Putnam
2010-05-11 11:47 ` Richard Riley
2010-05-11 13:21 ` Harry Putnam
2010-05-11 14:06 ` Tim Visher
2010-05-11 22:02 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2010-05-13 14:43 ` Tim Visher
2010-05-14 1:30 ` Harry Putnam
2010-05-11 14:07 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.3.1273575216.918.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-11 11:38 ` Barry Margolin
2010-05-16 9:47 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-05-10 21:10 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-05-16 10:50 ` Uday S Reddy
[not found] <mailman.10.1273520565.11383.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-10 21:01 ` Andreas Politz
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