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Re: marked text highlighting


From: David Hansen
Subject: Re: marked text highlighting
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:28:59 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On 6 Feb 2006 05:06:24 -0800 Matthias Knelangen wrote:

> when I'm marking text with the mouse in GNU emacs, it'll be
> highlighted, but when I'm doing it via the keyboard (C-space) it won't.
> How do I enable the mark highlighting for keyboard text selection?

add

(transient-mark-mode 1)

to your ~/.emacs.  But better C-h f transient-mark-mode RET
first.  This will break some useful stuff.

If you use the developer version of emacs you can enable
transient-mark-mode temporally by hitting C-SPC twice.

David


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