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The text between the point and mark in a buffer.

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Point belongs to window - mark belongs to buffer

In Emacs the point belongs to a window: this allows a buffer to be displayed in two different windows at the same time. The mark belongs however to the buffer. Conceptually the mark and a point ...
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Is there a way to move region with arrow keys or similar?

Say I have a function int calc(int that, int this); I want to mark int that and then move it right across words by hitting modifier arrow key (or similar) twice to get int calc(int this, int that); ...
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Region face foreground color as function of original faces

I know you can set the :foreground of the region face so that it simply uses the :foreground of whatever is selected, while using the region's :background. And I know you can just set the foreground ...
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Would it be possible to disable flycheck selected region on mark?

When I selected a region Ctrl-space up-arrow key, flycheck errors' font color are remain as it is. Example, flycheck error makes fore-color bold orange: Would it be possible to disable flychecks when ...
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Is it possible to highlight the region uniformly across different sizes/fonts?

Highlighting the region when it includes text with different heights/fonts shows gaps and different highlighting heights as follows: Is there any way of highlighting continuously (no gaps) and ...
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Are there any packages or configuration snippets for better whitespace traversal?

Whitespace traversal in Emacs is atrocious. By "traversal" I mean: Moving the point with C-<direction> Expanding a selection (with either a package or region mark) Deleting with C- or M- ...
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Conditional Formatting foreground and background when highlighting selected text

This is a follow-up question to: Interchange Foreground and Background Colors when highlighting selected text. How can I do some conditional formatting? For example I do not want inverse-video if the ...
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Combine `flyspell-region` with`writegood-mode`

I would like to combine flyspell-region with writegood-mode, but writegood-mode does not provide a function to check a region of text. This is what I came up with to work around the limitation: (defun ...
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How to write functions that only operate on characters within a rectangular-region?

I've found emacs has support for rectangular selection, however I didn't see references to API's for only operating on contents within the rectangle mark. How would this be acomplished? Take this ...
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(octave-mode) highlighted region remains highlighted after command

I am in octave-mode running an inferior octave shell. Now I mark a region and issue 'octave-send-region'. All commands are executed as expected and echoed in the shell buffer, and the highlighting is ...
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Add whitespace as indentation with `indent-region`

When using indent-region, emacs will indent code and leave bank spaces untouched. It seems to me that the majority prefer to delete whitespace. However I prefer white space indented with the code. An ...
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How to delete a long region by setting a mark and then searching for the location of the end of the region?

I have a long document. I placed two unique identifiers, in the form of short strings of printable English letter, in two positions in the document. The identifiers are far apart. My task is to delete ...
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How can I execute a python script on a given region of my buffer?

I have a .tex source and a python script called comments.py. This script reads my .tex source as input, does some operations on it and write a .com file as output. Then I have to reneame .com as .tex ...
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Make `insert` follow `(delete-selection-mode t)`

When I call helm-copy-to-buffer (which calls insert) with active region in my current buffer, the marked helm candidate is added after the active region. But I expect the active region to be replaced ...
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What is the cause of this inconsistent behaviour of TeX-command-buffer when narrowing?

When editing medium sized .tex files, I often find it convenient to make use of the narrow command C-x n n (narrow-to-region), usually in combination with the mark section command C-c * (LaTeX-mark-...
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Launch functions one after another

I wrote a function that pastes in the currently selected color from the palette to the buffer: (defun palette-paste-in-current-color () (interactive) (cua-paste (palette-current-rgb-to-kill-ring))...
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Why Does The Highlighted Region Go Away?

I want to be able to select multiple lines and move them up and down as a block, while "jumping" over the line in the direction of moving. Here's the code for moving up: (defun on-ctrl-shift-...
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format a region of text file with cc mode

I have a textfile.txt with content like the following *decltype with two or more arguments decltype does not take two arguments. Simply it can have an expression as its argument, and the comma ...
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How to add new support to `expand-region`?

I'm trying to add new support to expand-region: (defun er/lisp-mode () (interactive) "Enhancement for lisp like #'() ,@()" (when (looking-at "\\(\\(`,?\\)\\|\\('?,?\\)\\|\\(,?@?\\)...
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How can I provide the first-error and next-error initial positions as region selection in order to save to the kill-ring?

I am running a make command. I'd like to capture the first error and output it to a file. How can I select as a region from the beginning of first-error position to the position right before the next-...
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Interactively matching beginning of region

Short version: If i bound the scope of a search/replace to a region in the buffer (via the second/third optional argument of search-forward and its derivates), how can i match the beginning of that ...
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C-S-a doesn't select text to the line beginning

The Key combination Ctrl + Shift + a doesn't work in my GUI-Emacs to select a region from the position of pointer to the line start. Doing C-h k and the above key combination shows no documentation.
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