Re: Binding C-a to select all

[Jordan Greenberg]

Davin Pearson wrote:
> On Jun 25, 3:19 pm, "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> wrote:
> > (define-key global-map [(control a)] 'mark-whole-buffer)
>
> Thank you for your help but there is problem with the above code in
> that it doesn't highlight the region in the face "region" or "primary-
> selection".  Please advise me how I can go about getting this
> functionality online.

You probably want to add (transient-mark-mode 1) to your .emacs.
-Jordan