EmacsWiki: Mark (original) (raw)
The mark is one end of the region; the other end is point.
There is only one current mark in a buffer, but you can access past positions of the mark, sometimes also referred to also as “marks”. In particular, you can cycle among these positions.
Being a buffer position, the mark is located before or after a character. It is updated dynamically whenever the buffer’s contents are modified.
You can set the mark in any of these ways:
‘C-SPC’(point stays where it was)- dragging point with
‘mouse-1’(old point becomes mark) - clicking
‘mouse-3’(clicked position becomes point; old point becomes mark)
See MarkCommands for information on commands involving the mark.