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denys
denys

Reputation: 2519

emacs shift arrow selection selects only 1st char/line

This question is linked to my previous one: Shift arrow selection in emacs
It was solved but partially only.
For now I have another problem:
when I'm pressing shift-right 2 times - only last selection will be present. So. It is not extended (as it should be according my achivements) but always overwritten...

f.e. I have 1 word "window" only. And my cursor at position 0. I want to copy "wi" only. I've pressed shift-right 2 times. But only "i" was selected.
How I can fix this? 

den@playground:~/.emacs.den$ cat -v
^[[1;2C^[[1;2C

M-x version
GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0) of 2010-12-11 on raven, modified by Debian

I'm running my emacs on a remote machine via screen

den@playground:~/.emacs.den$ echo $TERM
screen

Without screen

den@playground:~$ echo $TERM
xterm

Behavior the same as under screen.

As I have understood the problem. Emacs after each shift-right click overwrites selection instead of expanding it...

So. Without screen and without my scripts (emacs -q).
Shift-right, shift-left, shift-down - working. shift-up - doing nothing. So. cursor is not moved after shift-up is pressed. Also shift-home, shift-end are working. shift-pgdown, shift-pgup - does not.

With screen and without my scripts (emacs -q).
Nothing.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 299

Answers (1)

alinsoar
alinsoar

Reputation: 15793

Why do you press Shift-right 2 times, and not press on 'w' C-SPACERightRight

This selects the wi. Now you press M-w, and you copied it.

Probably I understood wrong the problem ?

Upvotes: 1

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