Re: forward-word command cancels the mark

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. 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. I can't replicate this behavior on Linux, and no Windows box to hand. See docs (C-h v) for the variables `shifted-motion-keys-select-region' and `unshifted-motion-keys-deselect-region', and check whether changing those helps. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py