From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John A Pershing Jr Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Turn off selection coloring Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:18:40 -0400 Organization: Optimum Online Message-ID: <82k4zt5srz.fsf@alum.mit.edu> References: <87vdjkjah3.fsf@newsguy.com> <878wggt3m2.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87eiq5jkct.fsf@newsguy.com> <87ws3wby5g.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <8763bgjodu.fsf@newsguy.com> <87ljkcayrb.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253569865 15534 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2009 21:51:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:51:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 21 23:50:59 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 1Mpqmg-0001uy-R9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:50:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mpqmg-0008FI-85 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:50:58 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.51.MISMATCH!tmp-post01.iad!news.highwinds-media.com!news.cv.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2W4hTH+2okxQ9OFfkKHk7iW5rEg= Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.88.209.219 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cv.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173208 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:48:06 -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:68353 Archived-At: Keep in mind that there is *always* a region, defined as the stuff between point and mark (both of which are always defined). The difference here is whether the region is considered to be "active" or not, with this "activeness" causing a few commands to modify their behavior. Transient mark mode has also been around for quite a while; it determines whether certain mark-setting commands (e.g., C-SPC, C-x h) also set the region "active" or not. Before the current release, transient mark mode was off by default, and many of us were completely unaware of "active regions" or their implications. If one wanted an active region, you could use C-SPC C-SPC to temporarily turn on "activeness" for the current region, or you could enable transient mark mode in your .emacs file. The colorization is orthogonal to transient mark mode: it indicates that you have an active region, either automagically (because you are running in transient mark mode) or explicitly (via C-SPC C-SPC). It is probably a bad idea to suppress this colorization; I would guess that you would want *some* indication that you are dealing with an active region (rather than an ordinary region). If the colorized region is (1) new to you and (2) annoying, then you probably want to turn off transient mark mode in your .emacs file, since you have been surviving just fine the past past N years without ever using an active region. However, as more and more commands start paying attention to the activeness of the region and modifying their behavior, you may (or may not...) want to "get with the program" and start figuring out what active regions can do for you! -jp