Thanks to Gleb, Adrian and Hrvoje. Shouldn't the help say something about the transient nature of setting this variable: `zmacs-region-stays' is a built-in boolean variable. -- loaded from "filladapt" Value: nil Documentation: Whether the current command will deactivate the region. Commands which do not wish to affect whether the region is currently highlighted should set this to t. Normally, the region is turned off after executing each command that did not explicitly turn it on with the function zmacs-activate-region. Setting this to true lets a command be non-intrusive. See the variable `zmacs-regions'. The same effect can be achieved using the `_' interactive specification. I propose the following patch: --- src/editfns.c~ Sat Jul 29 16:31:59 2000 +++ src/editfns.c Thu Aug 3 21:56:11 2000 ＠＠ -2444,6 +2444,8 ＠＠ See the variable `zmacs-regions'. The same effect can be achieved using the `_' interactive specification. + +`zmacs-region-stays' is reset to nil before each command is executed. */ ); zmacs_region_stays = 0; Hrvoje> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 06:18:37PM -0400, Vin Shelton wrote: Hrvoje> I believe this should do it: Hrvoje> (setq zmacs-region-stays t) - vin