emacs set marker behavior

[Yuan Luo]

Hi,

I am annoyed by the behavior that out of a sudden emacs set marker on current cursor point and if I go to the end of line or go to the end of buffer, it selects the regions and by the time I type, that region is cut & gone! 

I want to change its behavior so unless I press Ctrl+@, emacs never sets marker itself, how do I do that?

Best,

Yuan

[Bastien]

(setq delete-active-region nil) so that it doesn't delete the active
region.

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Bastien

[XeCycle]

Yuan Luo <yuan.hy...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,

>
> I am annoyed by the behavior that out of a sudden emacs set
> marker on current cursor point and if I go to the end of line or
> go to the end of buffer, it selects the regions and by the time I
> type, that region is cut & gone! 
>
> I want to change its behavior so unless I press Ctrl+@, emacs
> never sets marker itself, how do I do that?

These markers are useful, but you have probably configured
something else so that these markers become active. Figure out
what's that, and disable that.

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[B. T. Raven]

Die Tue May 01 2012 08:06:03 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) Yuan Luo
<yuan.hy...@gmail.com> scripsit:

You mean mark instead of marker, right?
Is this using mouse in console? See gpm-mouse-mode. Also
delete-selection-mode.
Then, you could substitute the "nomark" flavors of many functions for
their "mark" varieties where appropriate.