The Mark and the Region

C-<SPC> and C-@ (which are both bound to set-mark-command) set the mark to where the point is located; they work the same as GNU Emacs. C-x C-x (which is bound to exchange-point-and-mark) works the same as GNU Emacs. You can use the left mouse button (mouse 1) to drag out the region.

Tint Emacs does not support transient mark mode. Instead the region is always visible and always active.

Tint Emacs maintains a mark ring for every buffer. The size of this is fixed at 16. In addition, Tint Emacs maintains a global mark ring, which is also fixed at 16 marks. C-u C-@ and C-u C-<SPC> both pop one mark off of the mark ring for the current buffer. C-x C-@ and C-x C-<SPC> (both of which are bound to pop-global-mark) pop one mark off of the global mark ring. This all works the same as GNU Emacs except that in Tint Emacs the sizes of mark rings are fixed at 16.

Marking Text

C-x h (which is bound to mark-whole-buffer) will put the point at the beginning of the buffer and the mark at the end, hence the region will be the entire buffer. This works the same as GNU Emacs.