This is not specific to ms windows. Please post it on gnu-emacs instead.
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Tolkin, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Summary: If I bind the home key to the macro below and press shift+home > it does not select the text. > > Details: > I am running GNU Emacs 22.3.1 on of 2008-09-96 on SOFT-MJASON. On > windows XP SP2. > This used to work in emacs 22. I suspect the problem has to do with > changes to cua-mode (which I have on) and/or transient mark-mode (which > I explicitly set on in v. 22,but now seems to be part of cua-mode.) > > Here is the macro definition: > > ;; Posted to comp.emacs by: > ;; Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (defun my-home () > "Toggle the point between the beginning of the current line, and the > first non-whitespace character on the line." > (interactive) > (let ((pos (save-excursion (back-to-indentation) (point)))) > (if (equal pos (point)) > (beginning-of-line) > (back-to-indentation)))) > > (global-set-key [home] 'my-home) > > > My current workaround is simply to comment out the global-set-key line. > Is there a fix to the macro to get the old behavior? Even better would > be something already in cua-mode or simple.el etc that i could use. > > > Thanks, > Steve > -- > Steven Tolkin > There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, > not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. > > > > >
