From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting out of text selection in emacs 23 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:21:32 +0200 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248200599 26174 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2009 18:23:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Xah Lee Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 21 20:23:12 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 1MTJzb-00035U-L3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:23:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTJzb-0003OU-2v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTJy8-0002u0-Jw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:21:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTJy3-0002rk-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:21:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49310 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTJy3-0002re-Gy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.247]:14959) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTJy3-0002F7-8T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b6so3151479ana.21 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:21:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=k+ncEXGYN9FWVwVaN8oEOt8AkXVW5MbSjWD7nQRmWLU=; b=EM+2Qz2jmcbYAV7WSfPNFkzfRT5ANzpRveUXI9IN02cKYW+pNghoG38d6NUv1eSWam SBpI+NyR0MHJh8cU18TxsgziXPVBcDs83qnMvO7qbC1jHPWX565nXY59N2wc73w4LUFu t3pdfeWYmOdAHGI/kfs7n3ffmwn3Ik6dP9Lzo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Py3ImNl98r3YeOHrWRAg48968KVCB5SW2O22RqqhrK4NobIy8XU7vR7I7KMoqUeUb1 xNFY7p90W2jTwjxVcxS4z+3L0ttyB9vOTzuoIsanO0Y2XIUBasew+6ViuOK1CGMLNTnr z2Q00eIlHejUyFAXZOd0dPbR1bofhXuloLfF0= Original-Received: by 10.100.208.9 with SMTP id f9mr8344229ang.55.1248200492654; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:21:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2d773fa5-c39b-43e0-b0c4-fa379b4ace6d@13g2000prl.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:66324 Archived-At: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Xah Lee wrote: > 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? > > GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6002) of 2009-05-28 on > LENNART-69DE564 (patched) Hi Xah, can you give an example of how to reproduce it?