Re: how to activate region

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.7129.1242276989.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:

> Samuel Wales wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 16:16, Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> C-SPC twice.
> > 
> > That, unfortunately, has the side effect of setting mark.
> 
> ,----[ C-h k C-x C-x ]
> | C-x C-x runs the command exchange-point-and-mark
> |   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'.
> | It is bound to C-x C-x.
> | (exchange-point-and-mark &optional arg)
> |
> | Put the mark where point is now, and point where the mark is now.
> | This command works even when the mark is not active,
> | and it reactivates the mark.
> | With prefix arg, `transient-mark-mode' is enabled temporarily.
> |
> | [back]
> `----

Perhaps if transient-mark-mode is already enabled, the prefix arg 
*should* do what the OP wants, which is to just activate the mark 
without moving point.

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