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

[Hofert Jan Marius]

On 2011-09-22, at 19:28 , Jack Repenning wrote:

> On Sep 21, 2011, at 10:46 PM, Hofert Jan Marius wrote:
> 
>> No, I don't use another binding.
> 
> I was actually asking that question of Piet van Oostrum. Who, actually, had already provided the answer, "C-u before C-space."
> 
>> Our original question was how to select all (to apply some function to the selection). 
> 
> Ah.
> 
> I thought the original question was more like
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> 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).

for selecting and apply a function, then going back, yes. I like Elliott's suggestion with "remember":
C-x r <SPC> 1 # mark/remember point in register 1
C-x r j 1 # will get the cursor back 
It has the advantage of not selecting/highlighting anything. This is nice (non-distracting) for example for editing .tex files.


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