How to mark a region in emacs mode

Hello Nate,

The name of the action is "Toggle Sticky Selection". You can assign it to

Ctrl-Space in Settings | Keymap, although you should make sure to remap the

code completion to something else. It's actually one of the major benefits

of using PyCharm compared to a simple text editor. :-)

I cannot figure out how to mark a region in PyCharm's emacs mode.

Normally in Emacs, one would press CTRL+Space to set the mark point at

the cursor's current location, move the cursor to select the region

you want to yank (cut) or copy, and then press CTRLW to yank or ESCW

to copy the region.  This is all described in at length in the manual:

http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/emacs/Setting-Mark.html

However, in PyCharm's emacs mode pressing CTRL+Space is apparently

mapped by default to some kind of autocomplete command (I'm new to

PyCharm, sorry I can't be more specific).  I cannot find anything

under Preference > Keymap corresponding to setting the mark mode.  The

alternative Emacs mapping CTRL@ (CTRLSHIFT+2) does work but this is

fairly awkward.

For now, I have to select regions using SHIFT+Arrow Keys.  My fingers

are much more used to the standard Emacs CTRL+Space so I'm hoping it

is possible to customize this key mapping!

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Dmitry Jemerov

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