Re: A few weird behaviours with emacs 21.3.1

[llewelly]

John Kliff Jochens <jkliff@escatologia.net> writes:
[snip]
> - the region marking is behaving somewhat strange: in 21.2, when I
> C-space and moved the cursor, the region I was selcting was highlighted
> and the highlight dispeared only once I had the mark set (C-x C-x). Now,
> this highlighting only works when I select a region with my mouse.
[snip]

This sounds like transient-mark-mode is on. I put

(transient-mark-mode -1) ;; Turn off transient-mark-mode .

in my .emacs .

If your .emacs loads .el files you may have to put it after the .el
    files are loaded; some might set transient-mark-mode .