Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:58:17PM +0100, Lars Gullik BjÃnnes wrote: >> I think you can think of hte mark as a "place anchor here" >> >> Emacs has a very nice "selection mode" (C-<space>), if possible we >> should have that as well. (after C-<space> is pressed I can used any >> cursorm movement command and the selection will then span from the >> place where I first pressed C-<space> to whereever the cursor might be >> now.) > > vim does the same on C-V. But I don't think we'd need some 'mark' flag > for that. > > Btw, I always found it a bit stange to have both (e.g.) 'word-left' > and 'word-left-select' as separate LFUNs. Some 'selection-on, word-left' > combo should have done as well...
But that how the events are coming (be it by shift-move in cua.bind or click-mouse-move). There's no selection-on nor selection-off event when mouse-dragging. Alfredo
