From: Nick Helm <nick@tenpoint.co.nz>
To: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Can I use movement commands to refine a mouse-defined region?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:50:44 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bn6l3kij.fsf@tenpoint.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83io0un7i4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:59:15 +0200")
>> I would like to refine the region by moving point with C-f, C-b etc.
>> However, any movement keys immediately deactivates the defined region
>> and removes the region highlight.
>
> Use shifted arrow keys, they don't deactivate the region.
Thanks Eli, that works well.
This also led me the right place in the manual:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Shift-Selection.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-11 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-10 4:38 Can I use movement commands to refine a mouse-defined region? Nick Helm
2016-03-10 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 0:50 ` Nick Helm [this message]
2016-03-10 13:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
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