Re: Transient mark mode

[Morten Leander Petersen]

Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se> writes:

> On 2011-10-17 11:38, Morten Leander Petersen wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I use a couple of modes which require transient mark mode to be enabled
>> (yasnippet for one). However, I don't like the highlighting of the
>> region. So is there a way to get rid of this highlighting without having
>> to disable transient mark mode?
>>
>
> Just remove the `background' property from the `region' face using
> customize:
>
> (custom-set-faces
>  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>  '(region ((t nil))))
>
>

For some reason this did not work for me. However if I did it manually
it worked, i.e. I put the following in my .emacs

(set-face-foreground 'region nil)
(set-face-background 'region nil)

and that did the trick.

Thank you for the help.
-- 
/Morten