home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!acad.drake.edu!TA2321S
- From: TA2321S@acad.drake.edu (THE PENGUIN)
- Subject: Help on mark command
- Message-ID: <01GOIERW2NQQ000ART@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU>
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:26:51 GMT
- Lines: 20
-
- To the list,
- I'm new to emacs so have patience. Here is what I want to do: select say
- 100 lines from a text file cut them and create another file and put
- those 100 lines into the new file. But, I want to use the mark command to
- select the text. I know I can do a C-u 100 C-k to kill that many lines. But,
- I want to be able to select the text with the mark command say put a mark here
- at line number 200 with a C-@ command and then go 100 lines down and say C-@
- again so that the region of text is marked off. Then I can do a C-x C-f
- to find the new file and then do a C-y command to yank back those 100 lines
- and put them into the new file. But the mark or C-@ command doesn't want to
- put the second mark at the end of my region of text. Help.
- ********************************************************************************
- * VAX Senior Consultant | Yours through INTERNET, *
- * Dial Center for Computer Sciences | Terry Asher <TA2321S@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU>,*
- * Academic Computing Services | UNIX-INTERNET <TA2321S@DUNIX.DRAKE.EDU>*
- * Drake University | *
- * 2407 Carpenter | For the listner who listens in the snow,*
- * Des Moines, Iowa 50311 USA |and nothing himself, beholds the nothing *
- * (515) 271-3677 |that is not there and that is there. *
- ********************************************************************************
-