Re: color of transient-mark-mode

[Haines Brown]

Helmut Waitzmann <nn.throttle@xoxy.net> writes:

> Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net> writes:
>
>>I'm running emacs 24.4.1 on Debian Wheezy, and the background color of
>>transient mark is too dark, making the highlighted text hard to
>>read. I'd like to change the background color to a lighter color, but
>>I'm sure this can be done yet in my current version of emacs.
>
> Hit
>
> M-x list-faces-display
>
> to get the Faces Buffer.  Position the cursor at the line starting with
> “region”.  Press
>
> C-m
>
> customize and save.

I thought this worked, but it turned out to apply only to the current
buffer because it was not saved. This reason is that all my emacs
sessions use -q and define their own init files.

What I need is a string in the init files that defines the
highlight/transient background. Could you be of help here?