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Add Esc to step out from mark mode #18

Closed gizak closed 7 years ago

gizak commented 7 years ago

This is actually a feature request.

vscode-emacs works great, but there is a problem - when I accidentally entered mark mode (with the Yank text appearing on status bar) and I want to quit the mark-yank workflow, I have to actually copy or cut the selection to return to normal mode. Did I miss something?

Maybe we could use Esc to break the workflow like in search mode?

sammy44nts commented 7 years ago

When text is Yanked, vscode-emacs automatically enter in Mark mode in order to copy emacs behavior.

C-g is supposed to exit Mark mode. Doesn't it work?

gizak commented 7 years ago

My bad, It is working now. The C-g key mapping was override on my machine.

However there is another issue - When I selected some text, then M-w and C-y, the copy and paste behaviour was correct but after the operation I found I was still in Yank mode.

Is it a intended behaviour? In Emacs it just gets back to normal mode since the operation finished.

sammy44nts commented 7 years ago

You are right, I tested on emacs in Bash on Windows during developments and the behavior was wrong. It entered Mark mode after a Yank operation. My bad, I'll correct this wrong behavior since emacs on Linux does not enter in Mark mode after a Yank operation.

Thank you very much for your feedback :+1:

Another way to exit Mark mode is to type C-space again. Does it work for you?