Emacs installation

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 12/17/06, Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/17/06, Michael Satterwhite <michael at weblore.com> wrote:
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> > On a new machine, I've just installed Ubuntu Dapper. One of the packages
> > I added was emacs 2.1
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> > I know that on a previous ubuntu install, emacs highlighted an area when
> > I selected it by <ctrl>-space. On the install I have now, I look for the
> > mark set and just have to take it on faith that the area is selected as
> > I don't get the highligh.
> >
> > This tells me that I've omitted something (either software or a step) in
> > the emacs setup.
> >
> > Who can tell me what that might be?
> > Thanks in advance
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> I'm using emacs 22, not 21, but the simplest way is to use the menus
> and choose Options/Active Region Highlighting and then Options/Save
> Options, which will write the changes to your ~/.emacs file. I think,
> if I remember correctly, it's (transient-write-mode t)

Sorry, it's (transient-mark-mode t)

-Eamonn