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Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface
From: |
Ernest Adrogué |
Subject: |
Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface |
Date: |
Sun, 8 Dec 2013 23:58:29 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
8-12-2013, 22:25 (+0100); Michael Heerdegen escriu:
> Hi Ernest,
>
> > one of the things I like about running emacs in a terminal is that I can
> > select text without moving the point; is it possible to do the same when
> > running in a graphical interface (GTK)?
>
> This is not possible with the default selection, since point is, by
> definition, one border of the selection.
>
> But what you describe sounds like a description of the secondary selection:
>
> (info "(emacs) Secondary Selection")
Yeah, this is exactly it. Now I guess the question is can I have the
secondary selection text selection style but using the primary selection
instead?
- Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, (continued)
- Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Ernest Adrogué, 2013/12/08
- RE: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Drew Adams, 2013/12/08
- Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Bob Proulx, 2013/12/08
- Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/12/08
- RE: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Drew Adams, 2013/12/09
- Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/12/09
- RE: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Drew Adams, 2013/12/09
- Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/12/09
- RE: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Drew Adams, 2013/12/09
Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/12/08
- Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface,
Ernest Adrogué <=
- Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/12/09
- Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Ernest Adrogué, 2013/12/10
- RE: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Drew Adams, 2013/12/10
- Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/12/10
- Re: select text without moving the point in graphical interface, Ernest Adrogué, 2013/12/10