From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ctrl-x Ctrl-x (exchange-point-and-mark) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 07:38:08 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87d3x3wnkq.fsf@newsguy.com> <87632vcx8b.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291826353 15534 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 16:39:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:39:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 17:39:09 2010 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 1PQN2k-0004uh-4K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:39:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35970 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQN2j-0003Kj-B3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:39:01 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!elk.ncren.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Injection-Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="+bxBiZT/p0ZLLuDb5H+JCw"; logging-data="30376"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX187KD6yfU4tB8zqM7VFSdgR" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9ztgYb681cHSxedHvjK2olWsrMI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178122 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:75627 Archived-At: In article , Harry Putnam wrote: > Sean Sieger writes: > > > Harry Putnam writes: > > > > I see there are no customizing option matching > > `exchange-point-and-mark' (Ctrl-x Ctrl-x) > > > > > C-g doesn't suit you? > No not really... its actually quicker to strike spc bar twice (to me) > > What I had hoped for was some setting so that there wouldn't be yet > more clickety clack to exchange point and mark .. I don't understand > why it defaults to selecting the region. This is the usual way to activate the mark. > > Maybe I'm using C-x C-x for the wrong purpose (to return to previous > location) and should be using registers.. but again, its more messing > around. That would require. You can use C-u C-@ to pop the mark ring. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***