From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: highlighting selected text Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <6ee74701-2ea3-4f6b-b548-1454804227ee@y4g2000yqy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291851797 12610 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 23:43:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:43:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 00:43:09 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQTf3-0000yt-VO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:43:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQTXe-0005hW-K9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:35:22 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!c36g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.180.85.8 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1279014380 14238 127.0.0.1 (13 Jul 2010 09:46:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c36g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.180.85.8; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.99 Safari/533.4, gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179723 comp.emacs:100188 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:76223 Archived-At: On Jul 13, 2:42=C2=A0am, Jon Antonovics wrote: > I'm using emacs (emacs-nox) over an ssh terminal, and on just one > machine that I log into when I select some text it isn't visible what > text I've selected. =C2=A0On every other machine I've used it appears > inverted. > > I've copied over my personal .emacs file from other machines I use in > case there was something in there doing it, to no avail. > > What switches this on, or could switch it off? text highlighting is controlled by transient-mark-mode. It's on by default since emacs 23.1.See: =E2=80=A2 New Features in Emacs 23 http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs23_features.html in a text terminal, highlighting also can be effected by your terminal setup. You have to turn on ascii color or something called that if you haven't already... see if these helps. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84