RE: Changing color of transient mark

[Drew Adams]

> >> I'm running emacs 24.4.1, and the transient mark color is a very dark
> >> blue. This makes the highlighted text hard to read.
> 
> > Customize face `region':
> > M-x customize-face region
> 
> Took some stumbling about, but finally got it (wheat background). Thanks

See this doc bug report I just filed:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19841

If you cannot find some information you need, and you later find it
without the doc, and you think the doc should have helped you find
it, then consider filing a doc bug: `M-x report-emacs-bug'.

For simple stuff like this (at a minimum), it helps to get in the
habit of asking Emacs.  Unfortunately, in this case the doc isn't
(yet) as helpful as it should be.