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		ludwigvan on April 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS. Does `C-space` work for you? I currently use M-x set-mark-command instead. Other than that, emacs seems to work without issues! (Also, backspace was sending C-h, so I had to remap that in emacs.

jimwise on April 14, 2011 [–]

Try ESC-@, which runs mark-word -- once you have the mark set, you can expand/contract the region as normal by moving point.

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