From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bernie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Active region not highlighted Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:48:05 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6c06f7d3-14dc-453c-9d6b-c4b41ce12fc4@s38g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238851249 1750 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2009 13:20:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:20:49 +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 Apr 04 15:22:08 2009 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 1Lq5ol-0005In-Qt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:21:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48929 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lq5nN-0002Zi-Ju for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:20:25 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s38g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 118.67.6.107 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238809685 29668 127.0.0.1 (4 Apr 2009 01:48:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 01:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s38g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=118.67.6.107; posting-account=DRPGRwkAAACdcQS8oZ_IOS4prI1ukEV7 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168183 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:20:01 -0400 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:63472 Archived-At: In my installation of GNU Emacs on Windows XP (version 22.3.1), I have transient-mark-mode set to non-nil, but if I set mark and move point with the arrow keys on my keyboard the region is not highlighted. If I use the C-f, C-b, etc keys, then the region is highlighted as I expect. I'm too used to using the arrow keys now, so what's different about the function key and normal key bindings that causes the different behaviour?