Re: color of transient-mark-mode

[Helmut Waitzmann]

Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net> writes:

>I'm running emacs 24.4.1 on Debian Wheezy, and the background color of
>transient mark is too dark, making the highlighted text hard to
>read. I'd like to change the background color to a lighter color, but
>I'm sure this can be done yet in my current version of emacs.

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