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From: Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Region-highlighting has disappeared.
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:42:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cron55-1n6.ln1@news.ducksburg.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6067.1200095101.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On 2008-01-11, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:

>>>>  (setq transient-mark-mode t)
>>>>
>>>> in your .emacs file and try again.

>>> Maybe that works now, but I believe for the future it is better to use
>>>
>>>     (transient-mark-mode 1)
>> 
>> Thanks for the pointer, but now I wonder, why would the variable
>> become obsolete?
>
>
> The variable will not become obsolote. You can always test its value, 
> but you should not set its value directly since transient-mark-mode is a 
> (global) minor mode. Turning on a minor mode might do more than just set 
> the variable.

Aha, that makes sense.  Thanks!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-12 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-19 11:31 Region-highlighting has disappeared Adam Funk
2007-12-19 16:24 ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.5231.1198081539.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-19 17:20   ` Adam Funk
2007-12-19 18:14     ` Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5235.1198088110.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-19 19:11       ` Adam Funk
2007-12-19 22:06         ` Adam Funk
2007-12-20 11:31           ` Adam Funk
2008-01-10 17:16             ` yjgzhang
2008-01-11 13:04               ` Adam Funk
2008-01-11 15:42                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.6034.1200066139.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-11 20:28                   ` Adam Funk
2008-01-11 21:02                     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-01-11 23:44                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]                     ` <mailman.6067.1200095101.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-12 21:42                       ` Adam Funk [this message]
2008-02-07 10:42 ` Fabrice Niessen
2008-02-10 14:06   ` Adam Funk
2008-02-19 22:58     ` kovalsky.jan
2008-02-20  8:08       ` Sébastien Vauban

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