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Re: Turn off selection coloring
From: |
Harry Putnam |
Subject: |
Re: Turn off selection coloring |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:53:01 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
> Hi Harry,
>
>>> [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.
[...]
> But reading the docs, you can put
>
(transient-mark-mode -1)
>
> into your .emacs to turn it off, and only when you want to use the
> special active region features, you turn it on for the following command
> with `C-SPC C-SPC'. Then you have the coloring and special region
> handling only when you really want it.
Thanks again... I think I misunderstood your comment (footnote [1]).
The part that says "although this feature isn't used too much till
now"
I took to mean the behavior you were talking about was new since the
coloring of region became default.
So I thought you were suggesting some new kinds of behavior related to
region.
Sorry to have caused more work for you.
It appears that setting (transient-mark-mode -1) doesn't prevent
ispell-region from working. Or other region based actions like
killing a region etc.
One thing I do miss with (transient-mark-mode -1) set is the coloring
when selecting a region with the mouse.
Was there a time when setting mark and scrolling did NOT colorize the
region but selection with mouse did?
Or more cogently... is there a way to do that now. Stop region
colorizing when done from the keyboard but allow it when selected with
mouse?
I also seem to recall a time when the colorizing of a region could be
invoked with a double mark set before scrolling, but was not on by
default... Is that still a possibility