kill-ring-save: how to disable the blinking mark?

kill-ring-save: how to disable the blinking mark?

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

Hello,

with Transient Mark mode disabled, M-w (kill-ring-save) makes the mark 
blink.  I'd like to disable that.  I've looked without success for 
variables matching "mark", "blink", "kill" that could have been related.

I'm using GNU Emacs 24.1.

Thanks.

Re: kill-ring-save: how to disable the blinking mark?

[Stefan Monnier]

> with Transient Mark mode disabled, M-w (kill-ring-save) makes the mark
> blink.  I'd like to disable that.

Have you tried to just close your eyes or look away?


        Stefan

Re: kill-ring-save: how to disable the blinking mark?

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

On 27/08/12 05:18, Stefan Monnier wrote:
 >> with Transient Mark mode disabled, M-w (kill-ring-save) makes the mark
 >> blink.  I'd like to disable that.
 >
 > Have you tried to just close your eyes or look away?
 >
 >
 >          Stefan
 >

Yes, but that disrupts my editing.

Jokes apart... So, it cannot be done.  Well, I've found a workaround: 
setting
the background of the 'region face to be the same color as the 
background of the
frame (setting it to nil doesn't work).

Re: kill-ring-save: how to disable the blinking mark?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:24:05 +0100
> 
> On 27/08/12 05:18, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>  >> with Transient Mark mode disabled, M-w (kill-ring-save) makes the mark
>  >> blink.  I'd like to disable that.
>  >
>  > Have you tried to just close your eyes or look away?
>  >
>  >
>  >          Stefan
>  >
> 
> Yes, but that disrupts my editing.
> 
> Jokes apart... So, it cannot be done.

Yes, it can be done: set blink-matching-delay to zero.  The downside
is that this also affects blink-matching-paren, but maybe you don't
like that as well, or use show-paren-mode instead.