From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Turn off selection coloring Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:53:01 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <8763bgjodu.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87vdjkjah3.fsf@newsguy.com> <878wggt3m2.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87eiq5jkct.fsf@newsguy.com> <87ws3wby5g.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 1253285709 14570 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2009 14:55:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:55:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 18 16:55:03 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 1MoerV-00058J-DD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:55:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41592 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoerU-00044U-TB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:55:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoeqH-0003Dz-FA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MoeqC-00039t-7T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40386 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MoeqC-00039l-2S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60805) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MoeqB-0007YP-DS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:53:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Moeq2-0004ZN-41 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:53:30 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:53:30 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:53:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o/nIwO+0N+qKHZ79/CISetvMWUY= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:68278 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > > Hi Harry, > >>> [1] Some commands behave differently when the mark is active of >>> deactivated. This can be very handy, although this feature isn't >>> used too much till now. [...] > But reading the docs, you can put > (transient-mark-mode -1) > > into your .emacs to turn it off, and only when you want to use the > special active region features, you turn it on for the following command > with `C-SPC C-SPC'. Then you have the coloring and special region > handling only when you really want it. Thanks again... I think I misunderstood your comment (footnote [1]). The part that says "although this feature isn't used too much till now" I took to mean the behavior you were talking about was new since the coloring of region became default. So I thought you were suggesting some new kinds of behavior related to region. Sorry to have caused more work for you. It appears that setting (transient-mark-mode -1) doesn't prevent ispell-region from working. Or other region based actions like killing a region etc. One thing I do miss with (transient-mark-mode -1) set is the coloring when selecting a region with the mouse. Was there a time when setting mark and scrolling did NOT colorize the region but selection with mouse did? Or more cogently... is there a way to do that now. Stop region colorizing when done from the keyboard but allow it when selected with mouse? I also seem to recall a time when the colorizing of a region could be invoked with a double mark set before scrolling, but was not on by default... Is that still a possibility