From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Funk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Region-highlighting has disappeared. Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:04:16 +0000 Message-ID: References: <48ho35-kvd.ln1@news.ducksburg.com> <5e0q35-b77.ln1@news.ducksburg.com> <010cbd9d-60ad-40b2-a486-bc01976fc487@t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200058919 15680 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2008 13:41:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:41:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 11 14:42:20 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 1JDK9M-0003jM-5N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:42:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JDK8y-0008U8-FO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:41:56 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Ho/B10PzFJDCWP2ZEIteogaCjEop5z4jjIK7XgixXEJzaWQ7hS X-Orig-Path: news.ducksburg.com!news Cancel-Lock: sha1:w/IEb755bOudGSmje2RRWiM4q90= User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-77/mm/ao (Debian) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155238 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:50654 Archived-At: On 2008-01-10, yjgzhang@gmail.com wrote: > I encountered the same problems here with emacs under ubuntu. 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 have the same problems, 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 supposed to extend the 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. This problem > is very annoying when you using the keyboard for editing in Emacs, > because you can not see the selected region, they are in darks. > > I also try to emacs -q to ignore my profile, the same thing happened. > Does anyone can tell me how to solve this problem? When I start it with `emacs -q`, region-highlighting is off; try using M-x transient-mark-mode to switch it on. If that works, put (setq transient-mark-mode t) in your .emacs file and try again. (My problem was that something mysterious in my .emacs file was interfering with transient-mark-mode, which was turned on in that file.) HTH!