[PLUG] Odd emacs feature...

[Ali Corbin]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:
> I ran into an odd emacs feature the other day, and I'm not really sure
> how to figure out what it is, or ... well, anything about it.  It's
> likely new in emacs v23, so YMMV if you try it.  Cutting to the chase,
> you can highlight content in a buffer in a more or less persistent way
> by doing a funny little dance with the mouse and meta:
>
>   * Click and drag a selection with the mouse, but don't release the
> mouse button.
>   * Press and hold Meta
>   * Release the mouse button
>   * Release Meta.
>   * Ooh and Ahh over the selection that is now in yellow (at least,
> it's yellow for me.)
>

It's a new feature with emacs23, called something like discontiguous
region selection.  I read about it, somewhere, when I upgraded emacs,
tried it out, thought that it was pretty nifty, but haven't used it
since.  And I can't find the spot where I first read about it now.

Ali