From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Brodbeck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: prob. bugs in emacs under ubuntu Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:45:54 -0800 Message-ID: <9E2B890C-2737-48BF-BBB0-CB91724F4C2B@u.washington.edu> References: Reply-To: emacs list NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200012384 19623 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2008 00:46:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:46:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 11 01:46:45 2008 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 1JD82n-0004CL-7O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:46:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JD82P-0001zV-IK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:46:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JD823-0001tm-M2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:45:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JD822-0001rc-DU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:45:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JD821-0001r3-VB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:45:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu ([140.142.33.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JD821-0001b5-Ek for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9] (may be forged)) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.09) with ESMTP id m0B0jtBt014542 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:45:55 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from dove.gull.us (dsl081-163-112.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.163.112]) (authenticated authid=brodbd) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.09) with ESMTP id m0B0js1x022975 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:45:55 -0800 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.0.325393, Antispam-Data: 2008.1.10.163054 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='BODY_SIZE_700_799 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:50647 Archived-At: On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:19 AM, yjgzhang@gmail.com wrote: > I used to use emacs under Fedora and Mandriva. The emacs under those > two linux distributions has no problem at all. But when i transfered > to ubuntu, I lost the highlighting of a marked region, i.e., the > selected region using keyboard can not be highlighted. E.g, when you > using \C+space mark a begining of a region, and then using the left or > right arrows to move the cursor, nothing happened (it is supposed to > extend the colored region from the position where \C + space marked). > However, when I reach the end of the region, and using alt+w to cut > it, it still works. You need to enable transient-mark-mode.