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From: Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>
To: Decebal <CLDWesterhof@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is there no selected region in the second case
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:00:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27i8tpo0i.fsf@nschum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66c7838f-7c1c-4ddc-b7f3-f99144b9514d@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com> (Decebal's message of "Mon\, 29 Sep 2008 09\:30\:09 -0700 \(PDT\)")

Decebal <CLDWesterhof@gmail.com> wrote:

> The first push-mark works and I can delete with delete-region. But the
> second does not work. There is no region selected after the last two
> statements. What am I doing wrong?

Actually the second one works, too.  However, in Emacs, the region is
visually highlighted only when the mark is "active".

Are you sure you want to activate the mark, though?  Normally you would
save the position in a variable, something like this:

(save-excursion
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (let ((beg (point)))
    (re-search-forward "^=" nil t)
    (forward-line 2)
    (delete-region beg (point))))


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher




  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-29 16:30 Why is there no selected region in the second case Decebal
2008-09-30 17:00 ` Nikolaj Schumacher [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.20263.1222794037.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-01  7:42   ` Decebal

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