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Re: copying and pasting in emacs


From: lore
Subject: Re: copying and pasting in emacs
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:57:56 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux)

luca pamparana wrote:

> For example, one thing I normally need to do is select from the
> current position upto the next few words. Normally, I just press shift
> + ctrl and the left or right arrow key and the editor would highlight
> one word at a time. I have so far been unable to figure out how to
> highlight text in emacs using the keyboard.

,----
| C-@ runs the command set-mark-command, which is an interactive
| compiled Lisp function.
| 
| It is bound to C-SPC, C-@.
`----

Then you can move (M-b, M-f, C-p, C-n or so...)

Do not forget transient-mark-mode.

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