[Novalug] emacs 24
Gary Knott
garyknott@gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 18:07:31 EDT 2015
Dear Group, I have a (for me) very debilitating
problem with emacs as it comes with Lubuntu 14.04
Whe I am editing a file, and "set the mark" (by typing ctrl-space)
to define
the beginning (or end) of a region of text, as I subsequently
arrow up or down, or page-up/page-down, the
text thus passed over is supposed to be given a colored (non-white)
back-ground color so I can see what the region is.
But it is not!
googling suggests putting (setq-default transient-mark-mode t)
in my .emacs file. Alas, no joy.
My keyboard space-key - and ctrl keys work, and ctrl-k works,
but when I initially begin running emacs ctrl-space does
not seem to be read. Sometimes the message
"no mark set" appears when I type ctrl-w. But sometimes it
does work! I have successfully "marked and defined a region and then
extracted it with ctrl-w and placed it back with ctrl-y. (But
without a colored region showing.)
Any ideas? All the rest of emacs seems to work fine.
Is there any emacs trace I can turn on? Any place else where i
should ask for help?
Thanks gary knott, garyknott@gmail.com
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