From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: copying and pasting in emacs Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:56:52 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <640dcabc-d78f-4006-901f-2689297ea79a@w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238946107 13072 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2009 15:41:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 15:41:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 05 17:43:05 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 1LqUUy-0001pt-Ll for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:43:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40494 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LqUTa-0003zU-MG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:41:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1998sSb86TO6k1l2LK3AliH4QoXqrtGtlaW0qU0VbmX7I0GWo/0d6pIT8bCKWJyh5Jm4i341dr3pygFc4Fy0mmk43Lc1pHkgI+ZxYb0WW9MNGg72AAxn7qpqshxPzis/sY= Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 14:56:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+cx+k+xtniVLXv3wWkfG3gHLLAT6WvyYfLDIJ33f7WVA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:CZ2Wh4XPwjFWpl1+tleDNbWdOxM= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168214 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:63497 Archived-At: luca.pamparana@gmail.com writes: > Hello, > > I am unable to figure out how to select and copy text as you would do > in another editors: > > For example, one thing I normally need to do is select from the > current position upto the next few words. Normally, I just press shift > + ctrl and the left or right arrow key and the editor would highlight > one word at a time. I have so far been unable to figure out how to > highlight text in emacs using the keyboard. > > Anyone knows how I can do it esp. highlighting one word, line etc. at > a time. > > Many thanks, > > Luca Google up "emacs mark region" e.g http://as760.http.sasm3.net/textbooks/emacs/emacs_12.html