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From: David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>
To: emacs list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: prob. bugs in emacs under ubuntu
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:45:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9E2B890C-2737-48BF-BBB0-CB91724F4C2B@u.washington.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b719df8d-7366-4b6a-a3da-3cc0b9b247d4@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com>


On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:19 AM, yjgzhang@gmail.com wrote:

> I used to use emacs under Fedora and Mandriva. The emacs under those
> two linux distributions has no problem at all. But when i transfered
> to ubuntu, I lost the highlighting of a marked region, i.e., the
> selected region using keyboard can not be highlighted. E.g, when you
> using \C+space mark a begining of a region, and then using the left or
> right arrows to move the cursor, nothing happened (it is supposed to
> extend the colored region from the position where \C + space marked).
> However, when I reach the end of the region, and using alt+w to cut
> it, it still works.

You need to enable transient-mark-mode.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-11  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-10 17:19 prob. bugs in emacs under ubuntu yjgzhang
2008-01-11  0:45 ` David Brodbeck [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.6016.1200012361.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-11 12:46   ` yjgzhang
2008-01-11 14:15     ` yjgzhang

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