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from: JOSEPH POLANIK
date: 1998-02-22 10:14:00
subject: Re: marking end of block.

From: Joseph Polanik 
Curtis Delzer  wrote:
>This is elementary, I am sure, however in my general setup of TSE, if I
>use the alt-l to mark a line and keep going down to the end of what I
>want to mark, How do I do that?  Here's what I mean; I want to mark
>lines at the bottom of the text, 32 through 35 for example, then move
>them up to 1 through 3.  I know how to use alt-l and go down from 32 to
>35, use alt-m to move the block after I have the cursor in the place I
>wish to put the text, but if I go to the end, then go back up, probably
>the mark would get lost.  It is marking the end I don't know, in Tsepro's
>generic configuration.  If I mark a paragraph, the mark would just go
>down to the first blank line after I started and stop and then, the end
>would be marked, but that isn't what I need to do.
>
>Any help gratefully appreciated.  In Q-Edit, I could "mark beginning,"
>and "mark end" and then do whatever I desired with the block but this
>function isn't burned into the generic configuration that I could find,
>or I am totally missing something, which is entirely likely. :^)
>Thanks!
>
>Curtis Delzer,  H.S.,    WB6HEF,    Sacramento, CA.
>curtis@calweb.com
Hit ALT-L a second time on the last line of the block you are marking. Then
you can move the cursor out of the block without losing it or changing its
boundaries. 
Joseph Polanik
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