Re: newbie: selecting a line in emacs

[Greg Rowe]

Saket Sathe wrote:
> hi,
> How do I select an entire line in emacs for yanking/pasting etc.

In emacs the "selection" is all the text between the point (where the 
cursor is) and the mark (where you set the mark last using C-space). 
Normally the "selection" is not visible because the selection is ALWAYS 
active.  In many other editors selections are not always active.

A lot of emacs users like using transient mark mode.  This mode will 
highlight the active "selection" and slightly changes the behavior of 
emacs to be a bit more like other editors.  You can enable this mode 
with M-x transient-mark-mode.  If you run M-x transient-mark-mode a 
second time it will turn it off.

In transient mark mode to disable an active selection you can hit C-g. 
So if you want to kill/cut some text you would hit C-space at the 
beginning of your selection and then move to the end of your selection. 
 Then C-w to put the text into the kill ring (to cut it).

To disable the active selection in transient mark mode use C-g.

Greg

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