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From: Saptarshi Guha <saptarshi.guha@gmail.com>
To: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Using shift and arrow keys to select lines in Aquamacs (in org-mode)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:11:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e7471d50911101411s28f8b4aambda4606eff30b1c0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aayuyr51.fsf@gmx.de>

Thank you Sebastian. The best way to emacs happiness is to use its keys.
These shortcuts are extremely useful - I'll adopt them.

Regards
Saptarshi




> How about get used to Emacs keys for this purpose:
>
>  C-SPACE UP
>
>
> C-SPACE set's a mark and moving point extends the region.
> The big advantage is, that you can use all moving commands Emacs
> provides (`M-f', `M-b'...)
>
>
>
> Some keys/functions select text directly:
>
>  M-h       - mark-paragraph
>  C-x C-p   - mark-page
>  M-x mark- TAB  - show all marking commands
>
>
>
> Also, if you do not use org-mouse, you could use the left and right
> mouse button - optionally holding down the ALT key for a secondary
> selection.
>
> Pressing the middle button inserts the selection, with ALT the secondary
> one.
>
>
> While selecting, you can extend and narrow the selection in either
> direction be pressing the right button repeatedly.
>
> Right double-click cuts.
>
>
> Some of this depends on your setting of the variable
> `transient-mark-mode', which you can customize.
>
>
>
>
>
>  Sebastian
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-10 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-10 19:14 Using shift and arrow keys to select lines in Aquamacs (in org-mode) Saptarshi Guha
2009-11-10 21:10 ` J. David Boyd
2009-11-10 21:17   ` Saptarshi Guha
2009-11-10 22:03   ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-10 22:11     ` Saptarshi Guha [this message]
2009-11-10 22:41       ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2009-11-11  5:14 ` PT
2009-11-11 14:05   ` J. David Boyd
2009-11-11 14:34     ` PT

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