On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:44:50PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > 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.)
Is there just a single one of these buffers? > Thus I could type: > C-S-@ > Esc-> > M-w > > to copy all text from the current cursor position to the end of the > document. Sounds like what 'vG' or 'vG$' would do in vim... In any case, this marking setting business seems to be unrelated to selection as such. If so, it should not be implemented there. Andre'
