From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Region-highlighting has disappeared. Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:44:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4787FF76.8080008@gmail.com> References: <48ho35-kvd.ln1@news.ducksburg.com> <5e0q35-b77.ln1@news.ducksburg.com> <010cbd9d-60ad-40b2-a486-bc01976fc487@t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200095122 12140 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2008 23:45:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Adam Funk Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 12 00:45:44 2008 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 4.50) id 1JDTZD-0001U9-Ty for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:45:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JDTYp-0004eV-Tg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:45:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JDTYZ-0004dC-N6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JDTYX-0004a0-VO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JDTYX-0004Zm-PU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:44:57 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JDTYW-00021E-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:44:57 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:62263 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JDTYV-0004zm-73; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:44:55 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080111-0, 2008-01-11), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JDTYV-0004zm-73. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JDTYV-0004zm-73 71e7fa257ece0e4423ec294ab7c4e98a X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:50672 Archived-At: Adam Funk wrote: > 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? The variable will not become obsolote. You can always test its value, but you should not set its value directly since transient-mark-mode is a (global) minor mode. Turning on a minor mode might do more than just set the variable. BTW you can also set the value through M-x customize-option RET transient-mark-mode RET