On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net> wrote:
> On 2011-11-21, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > > You can hold down the shift key while you use the arrow keys, at > > least on Mac. > > This works but is not the "Emacs way". > > The advantage of a "begin-selection" command (lfun) is that you can now use > any movement function to find the end of the region you want to highlight > (e.g. find or even advanced find). > With the Shift-... key approach, this becomes hard to to with some key > combos > like Shift-Ctrl-PgUp or impossible with lfuns that do not have a "*-select" > variant. > > Exactly - and as I am using emacs for programming, I grew so used to using Ctrl+space for mark-on (as it is called in LyX, thanks Jean-Marc) and then navigaing around as usual, that I seriously missed it in LyX. Now LyX is even better. By the way: I would recommend trying it out: it so so easy to accidentally release shift when marking, especially when having to reasd the text while selecting. Thanks, Rainer > However, AFAIK, this is not implemented in LyX. > > Günter > > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
