From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting out of text selection in emacs 23 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <2d773fa5-c39b-43e0-b0c4-fa379b4ace6d@13g2000prl.googlegroups.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: ger.gmane.org 1248234247 21818 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2009 03:44:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:44:07 +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 Jul 22 05:44:00 2009 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 4.50) id 1MTSkK-0007UY-5L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:44:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTSkJ-0002pi-Ll for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:43:59 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1248207358 26539 127.0.0.1 (21 Jul 2009 20:15:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:15:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.37 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171138 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:42:17 -0400 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:66331 Archived-At: On Jul 21, 11:21=A0am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Xah Lee > > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:00:12 -0700 (PDT) > > > in emacs23, often when i have a text selection, i can't deselect it > > with Ctrl+g. Sometimes pressing Ctrl+g twice works, sometimes not and > > i have to move cursor first then Ctrl+g, or do a copy to get rid of > > the selection. > > > is this just me or something in emacs23? > > Please describe how you select the text when that happens. =A0There are > several different ways to select, each one with its own peculiarities > (and features). =A0Also, if this isn't in "emacs -Q", please tell what > is the setting of transient-mark-mode. thanks all. i'll track down to more details and hopefully a production step if it turns out is not something in my emacs customization. Xah