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Re: Can I use movement commands to refine a mouse-defined region?


From: Nick Helm
Subject: Re: Can I use movement commands to refine a mouse-defined region?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:50:44 +1300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin)

>> I would like to refine the region by moving point with C-f, C-b etc. 
>> However, any movement keys immediately deactivates the defined region
>> and removes the region highlight. 
>
> Use shifted arrow keys, they don't deactivate the region.

Thanks Eli, that works well. 

This also led me the right place in the manual:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Shift-Selection.html
 





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