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From: Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net>
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:37:40 -0500
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I'm running emacs 24.4.1, and the transient mark color is a very dark
blue. This makes the highlighted text hard to read.

Id like to redefine the background color something like this:

  ((transient-mark-mode 1)
    (set-background-color "mistyrose")
    (set-foreground-color "firebrick"))

but of course this does not work. Short of running PC mode, how can I
change at least the highlighting background color?