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

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "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".
> 

mark-whole-buffer, ok... I don't usually do that :) .. thanks for the
update, Steve.

>     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.

I didn't have to patch XFree86 to make it work in TL - just use the pc104
xkb map.  Don't know if the jp106 is broken or not, but I remember it
working back in 98..

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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