Highlighting the region

Highlighting the region

[Rancier, Jeff]

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Hi,

 

I just moved from Windows to Linux and I'm using the following:

 

GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2008-05-24 on builder16.centos.org

 

When I mark a region, the region should be yellow, correct?  Based on
the settings below?  I don't see anything when I hit C-space to mark the
region.  I'm I missing something here?  query-replace-regexp highlights
OK.

 

(set-face-foreground 'highlight "black")

(set-face-background 'highlight "yellow")

(set-face-background 'region   "yellow")

(set-face-background 'secondary-selection "lightskyblue1")

 

Thanks,

Jeff


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Re: Highlighting the region

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 31.03.2010 um 22:51 schrieb Rancier, Jeff:

> I don't see anything when I hit C-space to mark the region.


Did you set transient-mark-mode to non-nil? Are you extending the  
marked region? The point were you started does not change its colour.


There also newer Emacsen. 23.1 or 23.2 are the up-to-date versions.

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Re: Highlighting the region

[tomas]

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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:51:43PM -0400, Rancier, Jeff wrote:
> Hi,

> [...] I don't see anything when I hit C-space to mark the
> region.  I'm I missing something here?  query-replace-regexp highlights
> OK.

Hmm. I don't know whether I interpret you correctly, but if I do:

when you typee C-space, you *anchor* the region (i.e. you set the
beginning of it). Its end is at  "point" (that is, the cursor) -- so it
now most-probably has zero width. Once you start moving point, you
should "see" a region, spanning the buffer portion between "mark"
(that's where you hit C-space) and "point" thats where you moved (the
cursor) to).

Regards
- -- tomás
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Re: Highlighting the region

[Richard Riley]

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:51:43PM -0400, Rancier, Jeff wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>> [...] I don't see anything when I hit C-space to mark the
>> region.  I'm I missing something here?  query-replace-regexp highlights
>> OK.
>
> Hmm. I don't know whether I interpret you correctly, but if I do:
>
> when you typee C-space, you *anchor* the region (i.e. you set the
> beginning of it). Its end is at  "point" (that is, the cursor) -- so it
> now most-probably has zero width. Once you start moving point, you
> should "see" a region, spanning the buffer portion between "mark"
> (that's where you hit C-space) and "point" thats where you moved (the
> cursor) to).
>
> Regards
> -- tomás
>

Emacs 21? 

Transient mark mode is not default in emacs 21. Seems rather old version
to be using.


http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mark.html

Re: Highlighting the region

[tomas]

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On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 10:09:40AM +0200, Richard Riley wrote:

[...]

> Emacs 21? 
>
> Transient mark mode is not default in emacs 21. Seems rather old version
> to be using.

Oops, yes. I missed that bit.

Thanks
- -- tomás
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