On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 5:16 PM Mike Kupfer <mkup...@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.