The text between the point and mark in a buffer.
A region is all text in a buffer between the point (the text-cursor position) and the mark (if it exists). With transient-mark-mode on, the region text is highlighted.
Questions tagged [region]
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How to select non-contiguous regions in Emacs?
Suppose that I have already selected some text in the current buffer.
Is it possible to select another stretch of text, while keeping the previous selection (and so on)?
Added: One motivation for this functionality is as follows:
Assume that I have…
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How to set the region (selection) programmatically in Emacs Lisp using indices?
Given 2 absolute numbers (compatible with region-beginning, region-end).
How can these numbers be used to set the selection?
Edit: If you use evil mode you may want to check this question, at the time of asking I wasn't aware this required a…
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Reversing the order of letters/characters of a selected region
How can one reverse the letters/characters in a selected region?
xyz --> zyx
ab cde --> edc ba
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Is there an emacs package which can mirror a region?
Say, I have a buffer A in which there is a region of text from some position pos1 to an other position pos2.
I switch to buffer B, call a function with buffer A, pos1 and pos2 as parameters and it copies the referred region to buffer B at point and…
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How to stop backspace from doing kill-region?
(I'm using Emacs for more than 25 years, starting in version 18.58 I think)
Recently Emacs received changes that make an old-time user quite desperate, and I wonder how to revert some of those dubious "enhancements":
When I set a mark, copy and…
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Idiomatic handling of region boundaries while modifying its content
I want to write a function to indent SQL embedded in a markdown file.
It seems to make sense to use the region for this.
However, the looping form I am using is:
(defun rr/sql-indent-region (beginning end)
(interactive "r")
(while (< (point)…
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How do I expand the region-beginning and region-end?
Solution:
With the help of @Drew, I figure out a solution. I am not good at elisp. The code may not be a good design but at least is working. I use this code to add 4 white space so I can copy a highlighted code and paste to web like stackoverflow…
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Is it possible to apply a function to every region between two "marker" lines?
I have a .tex file that looks something like this:
$ cat foo.tex
\begin{document}
\begin{question}
lots of
multiline text
with several
paragraphs
of information
\end{question}
other text
\begin{question}
more text
here that i want…
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Set value of a variable to region text
I would like to write a script where I can select some text as the region, extract the selected region as a string, modify it, and pass it to another program.
I am playing around with ielm and see that I can call (yank) to pull the region string…
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How to prevent deactivating the region after a command?
When a function is called on a region, I want a visual indication of affected area (a blink for ex.). Say, I've written a function upcasing previous word, and after evaluation I immediately get the result (and that's good) but I also want region…
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How do I remove a protected region or line?
Apparently I cannot find the correct word for this problem. I tried searching for:
protected
non-editable
blocked
but none of those bring up anything.
I was writing some code when my cat jumped on my keyboard. I'm not sure what keys they hit, but…
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How to add new support to `expand-region`?
I'm trying to add new support to expand-region:
(defun er/lisp-mode ()
(interactive)
"Enhancement for lisp like #'() ,@()"
(when (looking-at "\\(\\(`,?\\)\\|\\('?,?\\)\\|\\(,?@?\\)\\|\\(#?'?\\)\\)?(")
(cond ((er/looking-back-on-line…
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How to write an elisp function to insert some text at the beginning and end of a selected region?
More specifically, I want to do something like this:
Select some region,
int foo(int bar)
{
bar = do_something(bar);
return bar + 1;
}
and then type a command to do like this:
#if 0
int foo(int bar)
{
bar =…
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How to delete the text between the tags of an XML element?
I need to delete a block of text between 2 tags, including tags themselves. I tried this:
(defun my-delete ()
(interactive)
(beginning-of-buffer)
(search-forward "<%ARGS>")
(move-beginning-of-line nil)
(set-mark-command…
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