From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to activate region
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 01:12:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-28972C.01124314052009@mara100-84.onlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7129.1242276989.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.7129.1242276989.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
> Samuel Wales wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 16:16, Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> C-SPC twice.
> >
> > That, unfortunately, has the side effect of setting mark.
>
> ,----[ C-h k C-x C-x ]
> | C-x C-x runs the command exchange-point-and-mark
> | which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'.
> | It is bound to C-x C-x.
> | (exchange-point-and-mark &optional arg)
> |
> | Put the mark where point is now, and point where the mark is now.
> | This command works even when the mark is not active,
> | and it reactivates the mark.
> | With prefix arg, `transient-mark-mode' is enabled temporarily.
> |
> | [back]
> `----
Perhaps if transient-mark-mode is already enabled, the prefix arg
*should* do what the OP wants, which is to just activate the mark
without moving point.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-13 22:19 how to activate region Samuel Wales
2009-05-13 23:16 ` Leo
2009-05-14 4:32 ` Samuel Wales
2009-05-14 4:33 ` Samuel Wales
2009-05-14 6:04 ` Andreas Röhler
2009-05-14 4:55 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.7129.1242276989.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-14 5:12 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
[not found] <mailman.7100.1242253215.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-14 4:59 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-14 8:24 ` Andreas Röhler
2009-05-15 1:46 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-15 20:16 ` Samuel Wales
2009-05-15 20:43 ` Samuel Wales
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