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

Iliya Lefterov iliya.lefterov at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 08:39:00 EDT 2011


Hi Marius,

do you know if latexmk works with XeLatex?

thanks, and have a nice day

iliya

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Hofert Jan Marius <
marius.hofert at math.ethz.ch> wrote:

>
> On 2011-09-23, at 04:10 , Iliya Lefterov wrote:
>
> > Jack,
> >
> > i totally agree with you. i also think the "save in a register" code you
> brought in is very, very important and  may be the most useful in this
> series of emails and comments. one great thing about Emacs (and it is my
> opinion, other people may disagree...) is the possibility to make it working
> in a way the user likes it. is it easy to get there...? - i don't think so.
> BTW, i still don't know if Marius is using Aquamacs to edit and compile
> LaTex files...? :)
>
> yes ! (?)
>
> In order for this thread to become the longest in the history of mailing
> lists (*lol*), let's continue here... I changed the default to latexmk (for
> several reasons) on C-c C-c. The only drawback is that on a second (also
> third, fourth,...) C-c C-c, Aquamacs asks again if it should compile it with
> latexmk instead of offering to view the document. But I guess it just can't
> know that latexmk only needs "one run" to finish. If someone knows a
> solution to that please let me know.
>
> But I would also like to mention something else: The above approach is not
> the pdc [= pretty damn coolest]. The real pdc approach (I think) is this: go
> to a shell/terminal, navigate to the document master.tex (your favorite .tex
> file, being the master if you have a project). Then type in latexmk -pvc
> -pdf master.tex
> latexmk now "listens". Whenever you save (with CMD + S), the document will
> be automatically compiled and updated. This has many advantages, for
> example, you don't have to type in anything except for saving. And: you
> don't have to use ugly local variables in all of your project files or
> tricky (see one of my recent posts) master-detection-algorithms...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius
>
> >
> > cheers, and have a nice weekend.
> >
> > iliya
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Jack Repenning <jrepenning at collab.net>
> wrote:
> > On Sep 22, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Iliya Lefterov wrote:
> >
> >> 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)?
> >
> > Amusingly enough, that actually is a well-formed question in Emacs. If a
> region is deleted, and either point or mark were inside it, then they're
> moved to the spot where the deleted region formerly lived. So it's still
> meaningful to say "the same spot" even though the whole neighborhood around
> that spot is gone. This same logic applies to the save/restore window
> configuration code I posted, and I believe it also applies to the "save in a
> register" code: they're all cases of Emacs' general notion of "markers," and
> all markers behave this way.
> >
> > It's also true that deleting a region leaves point at the point of
> deletion -- i.e., the same spot as the old point and mark are mapped to. So
> you don't need to want to go there, because you're already be there!
> >
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Iliya Lefterov, MD, PhD,
University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA
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