Re: How do I highlight word at point?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:16:10 -0400
> From: Wei Weng < wweng at acedsl.com >
> Subject: How do I highlight word at point?
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Message-ID: <1224382569.209484@nntp.acecape.com>
>
> The title pretty much said it. :)

Please include the full question in the body of the post too in future
posts.  It makes things much easier to read in some environments :-)

I think what you asked may be done by typing `M-b M-@'.

If you have enabled cua-mode you can also use something like `C-<left>
S-C-<right>'.