home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!geac!r-node!pseudo!mjn
- From: mjn@pseudo.uucp (Murray Nesbitt)
- Subject: Re: Help on mark command
- Organization: Private system in Toronto, ON
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 08:23:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <MJN.92Sep8002355@pseudo.uucp>
- In-Reply-To: TA2321S@acad.drake.edu's message of Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:26:51 GMT
- References: <01GOIERW2NQQ000ART@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU>
- Sender: mjn@pseudo.uucp (Murray Nesbitt)
- Lines: 26
-
-
- TA2321S@acad.drake.edu (THE PENGUIN) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Set the mark with C-@, as you are doing, move down 100 lines and use
- C-w (kill-region). If you want a non-destructive copy of the region,
- use M-w (copy-region-as-kill) instead.
-
- >********************************************************************************
- >* 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. *
- >********************************************************************************
-
- Are you entered in an "Enormous .signature" contest or something? If
- so, this should the winner.
-
- --
- Murray
-