Sue> I am not sure if this is the right mailing list to use, but Sue> it's the only one I see that actually has follow-ups for the Sue> posts. Stephen> You might be better off with the newsgroup comp.emacs.xemacs. Sue> I would like to start a mark (ctrl-space) then move forward Sue> word by word (forward-word) and keep my mark active. Sue> However, in xemacs, this doesn't work, my mark is cancelled Sue> as soon as I execute forward-word. Stephen> I can't replicate this behavior on Linux, and no Windows Stephen> box to hand. See docs (C-h v) for the variables Stephen> `shifted-motion-keys-select-region' and Stephen> `unshifted-motion-keys-deselect-region', and check Stephen> whether changing those helps. Works fine for me in (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.5 (beta8) \"broccoli\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32, Mule) of Wed Jul 31 2002 on D5DC120J" and (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.4 (patch 9) \"Informed Management (RC1)\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Sat May 25 2002 on D5DC120J" Here are my values of some relevant variables: shifted-motion-keys-select-region t unshifted-motion-keys-deselect-region t zmacs-regions t zmacs-region-stays nil Hope this helps, Adrian -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/