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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Turn off selection coloring
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:04:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdjkjah3.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)

I'll admit I only spent about 10 minutes looking for this answer... I
did

M-x apropos <RET> selection <followed by just `select'>

M-x customize-apropos " ditto "

C-h -i m emacs i select (and walked thru them)

I didn't find out how to turn off the blue color that appears when
mark is set, and I scroll. Indicating a selected region.  The one that
requires two spc bar hits to turn off.

I liked the old way... with no color and find myself very often
accidentally coloring a region... 

It is nice when I *intend* to select a region but too often I
accidentally select.... no doubt some kind of poor typing habit
causing it but it means this happens very often for me.

I don't remember having trouble knowing what I selected... when
intentionally selecting a region before we had that highlight, so I
think I want it off.

Can anyone provide a better searching clue?





             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-15 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-15 19:04 Harry Putnam [this message]
2009-09-15 19:22 ` Turn off selection coloring Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 22:07   ` Harry Putnam
2009-09-18  5:49     ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-18 14:53       ` Harry Putnam
2009-09-18 18:33         ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-19 20:01           ` Harry Putnam
     [not found]           ` <mailman.7064.1253390548.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-20 19:18             ` John A Pershing Jr
     [not found] <mailman.6729.1253041517.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-20 21:49 ` Xah Lee

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