How could I set a mark with keybinding `Ctrl+space` on Sublime Text`?

[avatar-lavventura]

On emacs by default Ctrl+space sets a mark and later when I press up/down arrow the selection expands.

I am using emacs keybindings on Sublime Text.

But on Sublime Text, I need to do Ctrl+space+space in order to set a mark. First space puts a dot next the line and the seconds space actually selects it.

[Q] How could I set a mark with keybinding Ctrl+space on Sublime Text`?

[canoeberry]

Typing Ctrl+Space does set the mark, and the little dot next to the line is an indicator.

If you want the region to be highlighted, you type Ctrl+space twice, which I think you figured out.

However, if you want to just type it once, there is a setting:

"sbp_active_mark_mode" : true,

I recently switched to that myself and am trying to train myself to type ctrl+space just once.

I hope this is what you want.

[avatar-lavventura]

That is exactly what I want. In emacs when I press ctrl+space+space I can exit from selection.

=> In sublime text what should I do to exit the selection?

Example: Here I press ctrl+space+space it select from wherever the cursor is again.

[canoeberry]

You can type ctrl+g to cancel the active mark.

[avatar-lavventura]

Thanks @canoeberry ctrl-g go back to where the setted mark location instead of the cursor's location but does the job.

[canoeberry]

That doesn’t sound right. ctrl-g only “goes back” if you’re in the middle of an i-search. But that’s proper emacs behaviour. If you’ve set the mark and are moving around and then type ctrl+g it should just clear it. If that’s not the case, let me know. It might be time for me to … um … do another release if I can only rememberhow. I’ve got some changes that I have been using for ages, and one of which is quite recent including massive performance improvement when doing things like ctrl+u ctrl+u ctrl+u ctrl+n.

[avatar-lavventura]

On emacs, lets say I have set the mark and move around and press ctrl-g, the selection is cleared and cursor remain as it is. Also ctrl-space clears the selection as well.

On sublime when I did the same approach, after ctrl-g selection also is cleared but cursor goes back the whereever the initial mark position is.

[canoeberry]

That behaviour is wrong. But I am not seeing that behaviour myself. And I certainly do not remember implementing anything like that. Could it be another plugin you have installed? If, after pressing ctrl+g and moving back to the start location, you press ctrl+n is the region displayed? If so, your ctrl+g simply moved back to the mark and didn’t cancel the emacs active region … Maybe you can turn on command logging in the console to see exactly what command is running. And I will double check that I (or somebody else) didn’t implement what you’re seeing.

[canoeberry]

Ah - this is how I have it set up: ctrl+g binding: command: sbp_quit {"favor_side": "end”} ESC binding: command: sbp_quit {"favor_side": “start”} So I guess I did implement that! I’m getting old … JP

[canoeberry]

Start is not always to the "left" of "end" either. Start is where you started the selection, end is where you currently are, regardless of relative position in the buffer.

Hope this helps.

[avatar-lavventura]

{"keys": ["ctrl+g"], "command": "sbp_quit", "args": {"favor_side": "end"}}

solves it, good catch, thanks @canoeberry

[canoeberry]

I have this and I cannot exactly remember why: I think it’s so I can progress from multi cursor with highlighted regions to multi-cursor without highlighted region, and then from there I can cancel the regions, etc. But something is not quite right with the “escape” version. The “num_selections” context seems to be necessary but it also is not doing the right thing. The ctrl+g one seems to work the way I want. // emacs catchall for ctrl+g also handles preferred "single selection" behavior {"keys": ["ctrl+g"], "command": "sbp_quit", "args": {"favor_side": "end"}, "context": [ {"key": "sbp_catchall"}, // inverse of all the "escape" key things found in Default plugin { "key": "has_next_field", "operator": "equal", "operand": false }, { "key": "has_prev_field", "operator": "equal", "operand": false }, { "key": "panel_visible", "operator": "equal", "operand": false }, { "key": "overlay_visible", "operator": "equal", "operand": false }, { "key": "auto_complete_visible", "operator": "equal", "operand": false }, // power cursors { "key": "in_cursor_transition", "operator": "equal", "operand": false} ] }, {"keys": ["escape"], "command": "sbp_quit", "args": {"favor_side": "start"}, "context": [ { "key": "sbp_catchall"}, // inverse of all the "escape" key things found in Default plugin and elsewhere { "key": "num_selections", "operator": "equal", "operand": 1 }, { "key": "has_next_field", "operator": "equal", "operand": false }, { "key": "has_prev_field", "operator": "equal", "operand": false }, { "key": "panel_visible", "operator": "equal", "operand": false }, { "key": "overlay_visible", "operator": "equal", "operand": false }, { "key": "auto_complete_visible", "operator": "equal", "operand": false }, ] },