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Re: newbie: selecting a line in emacs


From: Greg Rowe
Subject: Re: newbie: selecting a line in emacs
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:02:41 -0500
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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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