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Re: how to activate region
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: how to activate region |
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Thu, 14 May 2009 00:59:58 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.7100.1242253215.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> When transient-mark-mode is off, there must be a way to activate the
> existing region for commands that require it to be active. Anybody
> know what it is? The manual and apropos have yielded nothing so far.
>
> Thanks.
C-x C-x. This has the side effect of swapping the point and mark, so
you can type it again to get back where you were.
I don't think there's a standard command that does nothing but activate
the region. It should be trivial to write one, though.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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