From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sandro dentella Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: loosing selection of region Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:10:41 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1190963441.565563.45410@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com> References: <1190886421.587128.179360@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190965256 2728 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2007 07:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:40:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 28 09:40:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IbASl-0000p4-3i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IbASh-0003yv-L6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.38.130.161 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1190963441 28265 127.0.0.1 (28 Sep 2007 07:10:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:10:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Galeon/2.0.2 (Ubuntu package 2.0.2-4ubuntu1) Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com; posting-host=151.38.130.161; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152433 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47943 Archived-At: On 27 Set, 13:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: sandro dentella > > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:47:01 -0700 > > > since I moved to ubuntu emacs behave a little bit different. One of > > these differences is very annoying. In many situation I loose the > > region definition. E.g.: if I 'indent-rigidly' (bound to C-x C-i) > > after the first time I loose the > > definition of the region and I cannot go any further. > > > Similarly, if I mark a point and extend it using C-n, the moment it > > arrives at the end of the file it forgets the position of the mark, > > and no region gets selected. > > Does it help if you invoke Emacs with the --no-site-file switch? Yes it does! in fact it goes back to the behaviour I was used to. Digging into the /etc/emacs-start.d I found that emacs-extra package was responsible . Emacs-extra also introduced the annoying color choice that I needed to overwrite... The annoying line was: (setq next-line-add-newlines nil) Thanks for the hint sandro *:-)