Re: Region-highlighting has disappeared.

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2008-01-11, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>
> > > to switch it on.  If that works, put 
> > >
> > >  (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.

BTW you can also set the value through

  M-x customize-option RET transient-mark-mode RET