From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: automatic selection during search Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20b48225-281e-46d7-ad8a-15cd6f5aa602@default> References: <> <<83a9j0hptk.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380126354 21254 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2013 16:25:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:25:54 +0000 (UTC) To: Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 25 18:25:56 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VOruU-0004is-U0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:25:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53799 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOruU-0001h6-H4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOruB-0001gL-KL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOru2-0002Mn-Pe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:25:35 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:19386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOrtt-0002Bt-Fr; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r8PGPFMm018840 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:25:16 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8PGPEww002512 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:25:15 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt109.oracle.com (abhmt109.oracle.com [141.146.116.61]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8PGPE5l011859; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:25:14 GMT In-Reply-To: <<83a9j0hptk.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93575 Archived-At: > > 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 get= s > > selected (colored). Does anyone know how to avoid this unwanted selecti= on? >=20 > Turn off transient-mark-mode. In your ~/.emacs: > (setq-default transient-mark-mode nil) Hm. Sorry, I disagree. That is, you should not need to do that. Again, please try from `emacs -Q'. I'm betting you will not see the proble= m in that case. My crystal ball tells me that something in other code you ar= e loading is responsible for this.