Re: emacs transient-mark-mode

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> When I set mark with C-SAPCE and then move cursor with
> C-f C-b M-f M-b C-n C-p there is blue backgroun and 
> transient-mark-mode work as I am used to.  But if I move
> cursors with arrow keys or when I use C-x C-x to exchange
> cursor and mark transient-mark-mode disapears.

Doesn't sound like one of the known problems.
Try it with "emacs -Q" first.  Hopefully the problem won't appear there,
so you can then try and see if it's a bad interaction with some part of
your .emacs, or maybe something in Debian's packaging of Emacs.


        Stefan