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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: David Frascone <dave@frascone.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Copying and Pasting (and Selecting)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:11:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vdzwd5a.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i2o9cf5ced21004281045uce5afe57xe2f436017232a3ee@mail.gmail.com> (David Frascone's message of "Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:45:10 -0600")

David Frascone <dave@frascone.com> writes:

> **** Copying and Pasting
> This could just be me fighting with Aquamacs (Cmd-C, Cmd-V, Cmd-etc
> mac keys). But, the cutting, copying, and pasting do not seem very
> intuitive.  I am used to (from old emacs days) using C-w and C-y, but,
> i usually did that over regions.  Shift-Arrows to select, etc.  When I
> shift arrow over a subtree it mucks with priority.  I know that's by
> design, but I find it annoying.  Doing the alternative (cutting a
> subtree) does NOT seem intuitive to me.  (Well, the C-w at the end of
> the command (C-c C-x C-w) does).  But, I'm not trying to report a bug
> -- I'm actually asking a question:  How do you guys typically select a
> region and move it, assuming that you can't just move the subtree with
> M-S-<Arrows>

1. I use C-[SPACE] together with transient-mark-mode to select a region
   and then type C-w to kill it and C-y to yank it.

2. I often kill folded subtrees with a simple C-k (org-kill-line).

3. I make frequent use of org-refile.

- Matt

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-28 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-28 17:45 Copying and Pasting (and Selecting) David Frascone
2010-04-28 20:11 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2010-04-28 20:15   ` David Frascone
2010-04-29 12:35     ` Štěpán Němec
2010-04-29 14:26       ` David Frascone
2010-04-28 21:19 ` Bernt Hansen

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