From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LanX Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: restore region after replace-string Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 05:23:18 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0dfdb0af-c0b4-446b-8d3d-d194b128d85f@u32g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295098844 8573 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2011 13:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 15 14:40:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pe6Mt-0006po-9l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:40:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37868 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pe6Ms-0003Pp-QC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:40:34 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u32g2000yqe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.14.219.243 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1295097798 17502 127.0.0.1 (15 Jan 2011 13:23:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u32g2000yqe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=89.14.219.243; posting-account=W9fpQwoAAADZYmkl-8sXk1VPxG3rq-Pd User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010040118 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184297 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78470 Archived-At: > Can anybody shed any light on this, or point me in a better direction? hmm I tried to find any switch in the documentation, but AFAIS it's an integral feature of transient-mark-mode to disable the highlighting after any changes in the buffer: 'Changing the buffer "deactivates" the mark.' C-h d mark.*mode will help you list all commands related to this behavior. I have two suggestions - either explicitely mark the region by memorizing point and mark or getting those positions from the mark-ring - or use narrow-to-region and widen afterwords, like this you can use anything you want on the region. HTH Rolf