From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: automatic selection during search
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:51:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-F531F9.11513625092013@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2858.1380123666.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.2858.1380123666.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:38:30 +0200
> > From: Bostjan Vilfan <bjvilfan@gmail.com>
> >
> > In using emacs I'm encountering a problem that I find quite irritating:
> > (very) frequently when *I start a search with Ctrl-s*, the region from the
> > current position of the cursor to the location of searched for item gets
> > selected (colored). Does anyone know how to avoid this unwanted selection?
>
> Turn off transient-mark-mode. In your ~/.emacs:
>
> (setq-default transient-mark-mode nil)
That seems like overkill.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-25 6:38 automatic selection during search Bostjan Vilfan
2013-09-25 14:52 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-25 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-26 3:51 ` Yuri Khan
2013-09-26 8:38 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-26 9:08 ` Tassilo Horn
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2013-09-26 14:46 ` Barry Margolin
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2013-09-26 17:17 ` Barry Margolin
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2013-09-26 18:53 ` Barry Margolin
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2013-09-26 17:32 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-26 18:44 ` Peter Dyballa
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2013-09-26 15:43 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-26 16:01 ` Yuri Khan
2013-09-26 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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2013-09-30 19:59 ` Kai Grossjohann
2013-09-30 20:05 ` Barry Margolin
2013-10-01 3:56 ` Yuri Khan
2013-10-01 12:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2013-09-25 15:51 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
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2013-09-25 16:25 ` Drew Adams
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2013-09-27 6:26 ` bjvilfan
2013-09-27 15:20 ` Drew Adams
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