On Friday 28 November 2003 1:46 pm, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2003 14:37, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Is this like emacs' 'mark'? Ie, we 'mark' the start of the selection > > buffer. Angus (being thick and lazy) > > Possibly. What's good for, in emacs? How does it work?
Some text |in emacs going on for line after line. A new para. Foo bar. Lack of inspiration. The cursor is on the top line, immediately before 'in'. Using the command-buffer 'M-x set-mark-command' or the shortcut 'C-S-@' to 'set mark' Move the cursor to the bottom line, either by scrolling using the arrow keys or USING THE MOUSE TO CLICK at the desired position. Copy the buffer from the 'set-mark' point to the current cursor position. (M-w in emacs shortcut notation.) Thus I could type: C-S-@ Esc-> M-w to copy all text from the current cursor position to the end of the document. HTH, Angus
