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On 2008-01-11, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:

>> to switch it on.  If that works, put 
>> 
>>  (setq transient-mark-mode t)
>> 
>> in your .emacs file and try again.
>
> Maybe that works now, but I believe for the future it is better to use
>
>     (transient-mark-mode 1)

Thanks for the pointer, but now I wonder, why would the variable
become obsolete?