Re: Region-highlighting has disappeared.

[Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com>]

On 2008-02-07, Fabrice Niessen wrote:

> Hello Adam,
>
>> I just upgraded a computer from Ubuntu Feisty to Gutsy but (as
>> far as I'm aware) changed nothing else in the configuration;
>> now the region is no longer highlighted. (I already have
>> '(transient-mark-mode t) in the custom-set-variables section
>> of my ~/.emacs, but I can't figure out what else to do.)
>
> I've noticed a similar problem on my system, which I've finally
> found out as caused by `flyspell-mode' being enabled.
>
> Are you using flyspell?  What happens if you deactivate it?

I wasn't using flyspell.  I fixed the problem by eliminating things
from .emacs until it went away; specifically, I discovered these
mysterious lines:


(custom-set-variables
...
; '(pc-select-meta-moves-sexps t)
; '(pc-select-selection-keys-only t)
; '(pc-selection-mode t nil (pc-select))   ; this was screwing up the region-highlighting
...
)

Commenting out those three lines solved my problem.  (I don't know why
they were there in the first place.)

HTH!