Comments on: Fixing the mark commands in transient mark mode

By: There and back again in Emacs (and Visual Studio) « Peter Reavy

There and back again in Emacs (and Visual Studio) « Peter Reavy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:36:56 +0000

[...] exemplary Mastering Emacs has much more on the topic of the mark [...]

By: darthdeus

darthdeus — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:38:57 +0000

Great article! After just two days of using Emacs, this was probably the most desired feature I wanted to implement.

By: rory

rory — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:41:22 +0000

Thank you for these nice tweaks.

By: mickey

mickey — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:30:05 +0000

Hi Chris, Glad you like the blog. That command is one of my favourites, too. I use the default C-M-SPC keybind as it matches kill-sexp bound to C-M-k.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:20:26 +0000

On the mark commands, I find mark-sexp to be one of the most useful, in or out of a lisp-style mode. It grabs identifiers, balanced groups of parens and braces, etc. and on repeat it just expands. I bind it to M-SPC and use it hundreds of times each day.

I’m enjoying the blog; thanks.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:31:53 +0000

What a good aritcle.
This do save time.
But C-SPC conflict with ime.
I have to change C-SPC to f2.

By: Effective Editing I: Movement | Mastering Emacs

Effective Editing I: Movement | Mastering Emacs — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:32:35 +0000

[...] originating position, meaning you can jump back to where you came from with C-u C-SPC. I recommend reading my article on the mark commands as it will show you how to make the mark commands more [...]

By: mickey

mickey — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:21:16 +0000

Hi Boyd,

Thanks for the correction.

-Mickey.

By: Boyd Adamson

Boyd Adamson — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:47:32 +0000

It's not in the doc string but when tmm is on, calling set-mark-command twice (C-SPC C-SPC) will set the mark but disable the region. Easier than C-SPC C-g (When tmm is off, it's the opposite - a double press will turn it on temporarily)