Re: tlug: newbie question: "select all" in emacs?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott M Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
    >> How do you "select all" in emacs?

    Scott> meta-x (or esc-x) to get to command mode, then type
    Scott> 'select-all', I believe.

There is no such command in XEmacs.

C-x h is standard on all GNU Emacsen since 18.5x.  XEmacs will tell
you so if you use M-x "mark-whole-buffer".

    Scott> Note that many distributions nowadays will use the 'windows
    Scott> key' on your keyboard as 'meta'.  I know TL does, and I
    Scott> think that the others are doing that as well, as long as
    Scott> you specified the 104 key keymap during install.  I think
    Scott> it works the same with the jp106.

The Debian versions of these are broken; XFree86 distributes them
broken AFAIK.


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