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Re: Can I use movement commands to refine a mouse-defined region?
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Nick Helm |
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Re: Can I use movement commands to refine a mouse-defined region? |
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Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:50:44 +1300 |
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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