How to hilight?

How to hilight?

[Maurizio Loreti]

Hello -

I know how to set/change the color used to highlight the selected
region, or a secondary selection.

When in a buffer the user clicks on Edit -> Select All (or types C-x
h), the whole buffer is selected --- but not highlighted.  How can I
highlight the whole buffer in this situation?

(Note: I am trying to make my wife switch from Windows/Word to
Linux/Emacs.  For unknown reasons she WANTS to have the buffer
highlighted after a SelectAll.  As long as my personal taste is
involved, I do not care that much :-)

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Maurizio Loreti                         http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Padova, Italy              ROT13: ybergv@cq.vasa.vg

Re: How to hilight?

[Jesper Harder]

Maurizio Loreti <mlo@foobar.it> writes:

> When in a buffer the user clicks on Edit -> Select All (or types C-x
> h), the whole buffer is selected --- but not highlighted.  How can I
> highlight the whole buffer in this situation?

Turn on `transient-mark-mode'.  It's also available from the Options
menu.

Re: How to hilight?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

Maurizio Loreti <mlo@foobar.it> writes:

> (Note: I am trying to make my wife switch from Windows/Word to
> Linux/Emacs.  For unknown reasons she WANTS to have the buffer
> highlighted after a SelectAll.  As long as my personal taste is
> involved, I do not care that much :-)

you need to woo her w/ custom elisp (see ricette.el :-).

thi

Re: How to hilight?

[Tim Anderson]

Maurizio Loreti wrote:

> When in a buffer the user clicks on Edit -> Select All (or types C-x
> h), the whole buffer is selected --- but not highlighted.  How can I
> highlight the whole buffer in this situation?
> 
try Options -> Active Region Highlighting (Transient Mark Mode)
or M-x toggle-transient-mark-mode


tim