This page is about Emacs regions and the different operations and commands for manipulating the region.

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== Standard Region ==

The text between [[point]] and [[mark]] is the [[region]].  The [[active region]] is essentially what some other programs call the "selection".  The [[SecondarySelection|secondary selection]] is similar to the region, but it is more persistent. 

* BasicNarrowing -- Isolates the region, so you can limit operations to region text.  See also [[Narrowing]].
* CuaMode -- Use key bindings compatible with the Common User Access (CUA) system
* DeleteSelectionMode -- Replaces the region with what you type. Backspace (DEL) deletes the region.
* KillingAndYanking -- The default Emacs behavior for copying, killing (cutting), and yanking (pasting).
* NarrowIndirect -- Create indirect buffers cloned and narrowed from other buffers.
* PcSelectionMode -- Treats the region like MS Windows and Motif.
* RectangleCommands -- Operate on the column of text between point and mark.
** RectangleMark -- Highlights rectangular areas instead of a continuous stretches of text.
** RectangleAdd -- Adds the numbers in a rectangle.
* ShiftSelectMode -- Expand regions with Shift and a navigation command.
* TransientMarkMode -- Highlights the region whenever it is active (you can activate it using `C-x C-x').






== Region Extensions ==

* ApplyFunctionOnMultipleRegions -- Applies a function to several regions at the same time.
* AnchoredTranspose -- Transposes a phrase around an anchor phrase. In other words it swaps 2 regions.
* [[Anything|anything-show-kill-ring]] -- Narrow `kill-ring' using multiple patterns.
* AutoMark -- Push a mark after selected commands
* [[Bookmark+]] -- ''Name'' regions and make them ''persistent''. Revisit bookmark to visit and activate region.
* ChangingCursorDynamically -- Find the region easily by making the [[cursor]] more visible when Emacs is idle.
* CopyAndPaste -- Alternatives to default KillingAndYanking for copying, killing, and yanking.
* CopyingWholeLines -- Different ways of copying an entire line to the kill-ring.
* CopyWithoutSelection -- Simply copy current line, current word and current paragraph to the kill-ring without select to each line, each word or each paragraph 
* EevMode -- `M-x eev' saves region to a temporary script. Later you can execute the script.
* [https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el expand-region.el] -- Expand region increases the selected region 
* FastNav -- Set mark quickly at the next/previous nth occurence of a character while [[point]] is kept.
* HideRegion -- Hide and show multiple regions.
* HighlightTemporarily -- Highlight a region (includes marker pens etc.).
* [[Icicles]] -- Persistent, multiple regions as [[bookmark]]s. Select a bookmarked region, search one, etc. -- [[Icicles - Bookmark Enhancements]]
* [[IndirectBuffers#IndirectRegion]] -- Edit a region of text in a different mode.
* MarkLines -- Keyboard emulation of triple-click line selection. (Incompatible with CuaMode.)
* ModeLinePosition -- Show the size of the region in the mode-line, whenever the region is active (TransientMarkMode).
* [[Mouse+]] -- Highlight the [[yank]] position while you press `mouse-2', so you hit the right spot.
* MoveLine, MoveRegion, MoveText -- Move lines or region.
* MultipleNarrowings -- Use `##C-x n r r r...##' to cycle rings of [[region]]s, in the same or different buffers. Use `##C-x n x x x...##' to cycle rings of narrowings (buffer restrictions). Highlight a set of buffer zones. Coalesce adjacent and overlapping buffer zones.
* SelectiveUndo -- Undo changes within the region.
* [[Subedit]] -- Edit part of a buffer in a new buffer.
* SwapRegions -- Swap two regions.
* [[https://github.com/m2ym/thingopt-el thingopt-el]]  Expand region increases the selected region 
* <tt>[[trans-regions.el]]</tt> -- Transpose regions.
* VisibleMark -- Make the mark position visible
* <tt>[[wimpy-del.el]]</tt> -- Require confirmation when deleting a large region.
* [[Zones]] -- Use multiple buffer zones (in effect, multiple [[region]]s). 

== See also ==

* CategoryEditing
* EmacsNewbieMouseReference -- Basics on how to define and manipulate the region using the mouse in Emacs.
* [[Registers]] -- Basics on registers which can be used to store a region