On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:12:28PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2003 3:04 pm, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > 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? > > It appears so, yes. At least trying to set the mark in two views of the same > buffer causes the mark set in the first view to be unset. > > > > 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. > > Well, it marks the starting point for any future selection...
I question the utility of this feature. First, I have to mark the beginning of the potential selection. With the same effort I could start a real selection. Second, the feature could be implemented on top of real marks. I.e. in vim I'd use ma (set mark 'a') G (go to end of doc) v (select ... 'a ... to mark 'a') General marks _are_ useful, but in LyX I'd probably implement them as invisible or barely visible insets, not as part of the selection mechanism... Andre'
