From: sandro dentella <sandro@e-den.it>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: loosing selection of region
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:10:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190963441.565563.45410@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1386.1190891113.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On 27 Set, 13:05, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: sandro dentella <san...@e-den.it>
> > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:47:01 -0700
>
> > since I moved to ubuntu emacs behave a little bit different. One of
> > these differences is very annoying. In many situation I loose the
> > region definition. E.g.: if I 'indent-rigidly' (bound to C-x C-i)
> > after the first time I loose the
> > definition of the region and I cannot go any further.
>
> > Similarly, if I mark a point and extend it using C-n, the moment it
> > arrives at the end of the file it forgets the position of the mark,
> > and no region gets selected.
>
> Does it help if you invoke Emacs with the --no-site-file switch?
Yes it does! in fact it goes back to the behaviour I was used to.
Digging into the /etc/emacs-start.d I found that emacs-extra package
was responsible . Emacs-extra also introduced the annoying color
choice that I needed to overwrite...
The annoying line was: (setq next-line-add-newlines nil)
Thanks for the hint
sandro
*:-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-28 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-27 9:47 loosing selection of region sandro dentella
2007-09-27 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1386.1190891113.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 7:10 ` sandro dentella [this message]
2007-09-28 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-28 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
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