[OS X Emacs] Select all: how to *not* jump to the beginning of the file + how to not change the selection?

[Iliya Lefterov]

meddle should be read middle... sorry.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Iliya Lefterov <iliya.lefterov at gmail.com>wrote:

> Very interesting...
>
> i have been following all this until to a point that i realized... " man,
> this is going nowhere..."
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> so what about if at the end of your point 4) you delete the paragraph? are
> you still interested in going in the meddle of that one as you state in
> point 1)?
>
> cheers and have a nice summer... :)
>  -I.
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Jack Repenning <jrepenning at collab.net>wrote:
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>> On Sep 21, 2011, at 10:46 PM, Hofert Jan Marius wrote:
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>> > No, I don't use another binding.
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>> I was actually asking that question of Piet van Oostrum. Who, actually,
>> had already provided the answer, "C-u before C-space."
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>> > Our original question was how to select all (to apply some function to
>> the selection).
>>
>> Ah.
>>
>> I thought the original question was more like
>>
>> 1. have point somewhere or other in the middle of a paragraph (or file)
>> 2. use a command that marks the whole paragraph (or file), like
>> mark-paragraph (or mark-whole-buffer)
>> 3. use a command that operates on the region, like indent-region
>> 4. now, get point back to where it was at #1
>>
>> C-u C-space about twice does the job. I was confused by the original
>> reference to "C-space" (i.e., Piet originally left out the all-important
>> C-u).
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