From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: CUA-*mode (was: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:32:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87myq4saw1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <200802151711.m1FHB3Y3008798@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200802171658.m1HGwQ4h011067@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080219085231.GA1032@muc.de> <200802190938.m1J9ccVg016565@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080219190127.GA1106@muc.de> <877ih0o9dx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <7dbe73ed0802191545p3ff130came6223617e43c8466@mail.gmail.com> <47BB6B13.9030804@gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0802200156s68431680tce0ae5b59037edec@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203525324 23288 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2008 16:35:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:35:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, Dan Nicolaescu , storm@cua.dk, Alan Mackenzie , Miles Bader To: "Mathias Dahl" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 17:35:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JRrv5-00077D-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:35:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRrua-00019H-3d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRrsM-0006cb-Gc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:32:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRrsK-0006a9-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:32:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRrsK-0006Zr-PR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:32:52 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRrsD-0007OI-NJ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:32:45 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAFrlu0fO+J2cdGdsb2JhbACQUgEwn2qBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,381,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="14753411" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 20 Feb 2008 11:32:44 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.157.156]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id ASA62144; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:32:44 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 161447F48; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:32:44 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0802200156s68431680tce0ae5b59037edec@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:56:09 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89700 Archived-At: > However, what I think works quite well for a beginner, although I do > not use it myself anymore, is pc-selection-mode. IMHO it does not > "mess up" anything. Using shift + the arrow keys to select a region is > quite common on most applications even under GNU/Linux. cua-selection-mode works as well for that purpose (don't confuse it with cua-mode). Stefan