Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes: Which exactly the root of the problem. The mark is used for two different things, i.e. remembering old cursor positions and marking one edge of a region. Sometimes these clash. A much cleaner solution would be to separate the two functions better. For instance I like the fact that I can return to where I was after an isearch but I would also very much like to just mark the beginning of the reason and then jumping to (near) the end by isearching. Jan