Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)

[Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 5:16 PM Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Curt wrote:
> I had something similar to this happen to me with Emacs 24.  I ended up
> adding an override to my ~/.emacs to set the highlighting color.
>
> Tom, which Emacs package are you using?  The (default) GTK-based build
> can behave differently than the Lucid-based build.
>
> One way to change the highlighting color is to do
>
>   M-x customize-face RET
>   region RET
>
> Pick a background color that works for you, then save the change from
> the Customize window.

Thank you, I will experiment with that.