Re: Turn off selection coloring

[Harry Putnam]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

>> I didn't find out how to turn off the blue color that appears when
>> mark is set, and I scroll. Indicating a selected region.  The one that
>> requires two spc bar hits to turn off.
>
> When you only want to remove the coloring, then do
>
>   M-x customize-face RET region
>
> and remove the background color there.
>
> If you don't like the new special handling [1] of the active region at
> all, then put
>
>      (transient-mark-mode -1)
>
> into your ~/.emacs.

Thank for the helpful answers.

> [1] Some commands behave differently when the mark is active of
>    deactivated.  This can be very handy, although this feature
>    isn't used too much till now.

It is mostly the color but I guess the stickyness I seem to see might
be a problem without the color... Its likely I'd have selected regions
and not know it...  Not sure how much havoc that might lead too, but I
don't remember it being a problem before the advent of the coloring.

But then I guess you are saying there other changes that go along with
a selected region.

I have a hunch it would take me mnths or even yrs to notice which
behaved in a way I'd like.  Can you spell them out a bit more?