Re: highlighting selected text

[Jon Antonovics]

Thanks, I activated it with transient-mark-mode as you suggested


On 13 July, 10:46, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2:42 am, Jon Antonovics <jono...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm using emacs (emacs-nox) over an ssh terminal, and on just one
> > machine that I log into when I select some text it isn't visible what
> > text I've selected.  On every other machine I've used it appears
> > inverted.
>
> > I've copied over my personal .emacs file from other machines I use in
> > case there was something in there doing it, to no avail.
>
> > What switches this on, or could switch it off?
>
> text highlighting is controlled by transient-mark-mode. It's on by
> default since emacs 23.1.See:
>
> • New Features in Emacs 23
>  http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs23_features.html
>
> in a text terminal, highlighting also can be effected by your terminal
> setup. You have to turn on ascii color or something called that if you
> haven't already...
>
> see if these helps.
>
>   Xah
> ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
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