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Re: Mark set by ?mark-*? not deactivated by point motion
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Loris Bennett |
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Re: Mark set by ?mark-*? not deactivated by point motion |
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Wed, 19 Sep 2018 08:33:43 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:45:50 +0200
>>
>> So if I have
>>
>> able baker charlie
>>
>> and do `M-@' while on 'k',
>>
>> ker
>>
>> is selected. If I move left to 'a', then
>>
>> able baker
>>
>> is selected. If instead I move right to the final 'e', then
>>
>> charlie
>>
>> including the space in front of the 'c' is selected.
>>
>> Is that supposed to happen?
>
> Yes.
>
>> What's the use-case for the moving-right behaviour?
>
> To allow you to adjust the beginning of the region.
Sorry, I was getting confused by the name 'mark-word'. I naively
assumed the main purpose would be to mark the word at point and then
extend the selection if desired. Reading the description of the
function I see it more to do with selecting a region by the number of
words in it.
Cheers,
Loris
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