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Re: Region-highlighting has disappeared.
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Adam Funk |
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Re: Region-highlighting has disappeared. |
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Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:42:36 +0000 |
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On 2008-01-11, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>>>> (setq transient-mark-mode t)
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>>>> in your .emacs file and try again.
>>> Maybe that works now, but I believe for the future it is better to use
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>>> (transient-mark-mode 1)
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>> Thanks for the pointer, but now I wonder, why would the variable
>> become obsolete?
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> 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!