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From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ctrl-x Ctrl-x (exchange-point-and-mark)
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 10:47:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hsoeuu$ngi$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87632vcx8b.fsf@gmail.com>

On 5/10/2010 9:34 PM, Sean Sieger wrote:
> Harry Putnam<reader@newsguy.com>  writes:
>
>      I see there are no customizing option matching
>      `exchange-point-and-mark' (Ctrl-x Ctrl-x)
>
> C-g doesn't suit you?

There is at least one situation where C-g doesn't suit me (or any one, for that matter).

Once you set the mark down and start an incremental-search, you can't type C-g because that would cancel the search. The highlighting then feels incredibly sticky.

Cheers,
Uday




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-16  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-10 19:42 Ctrl-x Ctrl-x (exchange-point-and-mark) Harry Putnam
2010-05-10 20:34 ` Sean Sieger
2010-05-11 10:53   ` Harry Putnam
2010-05-11 11:47     ` Richard Riley
2010-05-11 13:21       ` Harry Putnam
2010-05-11 14:06         ` Tim Visher
2010-05-11 22:02           ` Harry Putnam
2010-05-13 14:43             ` Tim Visher
2010-05-14  1:30               ` Harry Putnam
2010-05-11 14:07         ` Sean Sieger
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3.1273575216.918.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-11 11:38     ` Barry Margolin
2010-05-16  9:47   ` Uday S Reddy [this message]
2010-05-10 21:10 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-05-16 10:50 ` Uday S Reddy
     [not found] <mailman.10.1273520565.11383.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-10 21:01 ` Andreas Politz

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