From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is transient-mark-mode for newbies? Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:54:38 +0200 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Message-ID: References: <1192109562.973390.221400@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192178516 15242 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2007 08:41:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:41:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 10:41:46 2007 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 1IgG56-00056p-AR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:41:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgG50-0004L8-8P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:41:10 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!129.16.222.141.MISMATCH!gide.ita.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: remote4.student.chalmers.se Original-X-Trace: gide.ita.chalmers.se 1192175678 8050 129.16.29.77 (12 Oct 2007 07:54:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@gide.ita.chalmers.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gW0bZRV9smS5eg9owWcQpYeNpl4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152859 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:48364 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: > BTW, your question appears to presume that t-m-m was created to emulate > Windows/Mac-style marking with the mouse. In fact, it goes back to the > ZMACS editor on the MIT Lisp Machines, which was written around 1980. In XEmacs the feature is even known as `zmacs-regions'. -- Johan Bockgård