Transient mark mode

Transient mark mode

[Morten Leander Petersen]

Hi.

I use a couple of modes which require transient mark mode to be enabled
(yasnippet for one). However, I don't like the highlighting of the
region. So is there a way to get rid of this highlighting without having
to disable transient mark mode?

Regards,
-- 
/Morten

Re: Transient mark mode

[Jambunathan K]

Morten Leander Petersen <mortenlp2@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi.
>
> I use a couple of modes which require transient mark mode to be enabled
> (yasnippet for one). However, I don't like the highlighting of the
> region. So is there a way to get rid of this highlighting without having
> to disable transient mark mode?

M-x customize-face RET region RET

Make sure that the highlighting is "subdued" so that it is "barely"
visible.


> Regards,

-- 

Re: Transient mark mode

[Alan Mackenzie]

Morten Leander Petersen <mortenlp2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.

> I use a couple of modes which require transient mark mode to be enabled
> (yasnippet for one). However, I don't like the highlighting of the
> region. So is there a way to get rid of this highlighting without having
> to disable transient mark mode?

No there is not, apart from nullifying the highlighting face, like
Jambunathan said.

Transient Mark Mode is a conflation of three disparate behaviours:
1/- Highlighting the region.
2/- Sort of "narrowing" to the region for certain commands.
3/- Disabling the mark and region's functionality except when it's
  enabled.

3 is what the minor mode is named after, yet 3's behaviour is usually
nullified by setting the option `mark-active-even-if-inactive'.  That is,
setting that option makes the region always usable.  So naming 1 and 2
"transient-mark-mode" is pretty silly, now.

1 and 2 can not be separated from eachother.  This is bad design, as there
are people who want 2 without 1.

> Regards,

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: Transient mark mode

[Harry Putnam]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> M-x customize-face RET region RET
>
> Make sure that the highlighting is "subdued" so that it is "barely"
> visible.

Where does one access a `subdued' property?

Re: Transient mark mode

[Deniz Dogan]

On 2011-10-17 11:38, Morten Leander Petersen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I use a couple of modes which require transient mark mode to be enabled
> (yasnippet for one). However, I don't like the highlighting of the
> region. So is there a way to get rid of this highlighting without having
> to disable transient mark mode?
>

Just remove the `background' property from the `region' face using 
customize:

(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  '(region ((t nil))))

Re: Transient mark mode

[Harry Putnam]

Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se> writes:

> On 2011-10-17 11:38, Morten Leander Petersen wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I use a couple of modes which require transient mark mode to be enabled
>> (yasnippet for one). However, I don't like the highlighting of the
>> region. So is there a way to get rid of this highlighting without having
>> to disable transient mark mode?
>>
>
> Just remove the `background' property from the `region' face using
> customize:
>
> (custom-set-faces
>  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>  '(region ((t nil))))

Well that removes it altogether.  I took Jambunathan's term `barely'
to mean there was still something visible.  Perhaps I misunderstood.

Re: Transient mark mode

[Morten Leander Petersen]

Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se> writes:

> On 2011-10-17 11:38, Morten Leander Petersen wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I use a couple of modes which require transient mark mode to be enabled
>> (yasnippet for one). However, I don't like the highlighting of the
>> region. So is there a way to get rid of this highlighting without having
>> to disable transient mark mode?
>>
>
> Just remove the `background' property from the `region' face using
> customize:
>
> (custom-set-faces
>  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>  '(region ((t nil))))
>
>

For some reason this did not work for me. However if I did it manually
it worked, i.e. I put the following in my .emacs

(set-face-foreground 'region nil)
(set-face-background 'region nil)

and that did the trick.

Thank you for the help.
-- 
/Morten