Holding down the shift key and clicking where you want to select to, either
forwards or backwards will select text from the current cursor point. Is
this helpful?
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Rae Drysdale


"Simon 1972" wrote:


Is there any way I can select all text from the current position up to a
specified set of characters?

For example, if you were at the start of this post, then "Select to
'graph.^p'" would select all the text up to the end of this paragraph.

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Simon 1972

Partially - That is OK for short sections of text.

But in my case, the text I want to select could cover several pages, so some
sort of automated "Select until" command is what I really would like.

And the search sequence could include carriage-returns or other control
characters (e..g. ^p ^l etc)

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Simon 1972

Place the cursor at the beginning of the text to select. Press F8 (or
alternatively double-click the letters EXT in the status bar) to turn
on Extend mode. Press the letter or other character you want to select
to. Finally, press Esc (or double-click EXT in the status bar again)
to turn of Extend mode.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:15:02 -0700, Simon 1972
wrote:

Partially - That is OK for short sections of text.

But in my case, the text I want to select could cover several pages, so some
sort of automated "Select until" command is what I really would like.

And the search sequence could include carriage-returns or other control
characters (e..g. ^p ^l etc)