From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Transient Mark Mode on by Default? Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:08:42 +0200 Message-ID: <877i5xewhh.fsf@iki.fi> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229587773 16031 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2008 08:09:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Help List To: "Tim Visher" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 09:10:39 2008 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 1LDDxn-0003oZ-7n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:10:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35033 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDDwb-0006WF-3H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDDwH-0006Ty-JF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:08:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDDwF-0006Ss-GZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:08:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55064 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDDwF-0006Sp-Ar for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:08:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:17915) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LDDwE-0001kb-Mr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:08:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13] helo=kirsi1.inet.fi) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LDDwD-0002pQ-Pu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:08:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mithlond.arda.local (80.220.180.181) by kirsi1.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 48FC5AC902A86B80; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:08:43 +0200 Original-Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda.local with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LDDw2-0000sB-RI; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:08:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Tim Visher's message of "Wed\, 17 Dec 2008 20\:57\:28 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:60774 Archived-At: Tim Visher (2008-12-17 20:57 -0500) wrote: > Once again I need help with a disparity between my home installation > and my work installation. At work, on Windows, Emacs appears to have > the standard mark mode turned on by default (i.e. the mark gets set > and activated automatically and does not highlight the region). At > home, on my Mac, it appears that the mark-mode is Transient by > default, which really is undesireable as a lot of the little work > flows I've developed at work (such as M-< M-w to grab the contents of > a buffer that I just finished writing) just don't work nearly as well > when I have to remember to set the mark manually, nor do they look > nearly as clean when the highlighting junk comes up. Anyone know how I > can fix that? I think Emacs 23 is (will be) the first version with transient mark mode switched on by default. In any case you may want to customize these options: M-x customize-option RET transient-mark-mode RET M-x customize-option RET mark-even-if-inactive RET The latter, if non-nil, keeps mark even if the (transient) region is deactivated.