Re: automatic selection during search

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:38:30 +0200
> From: Bostjan Vilfan <bjvilfan@gmail.com>
> 
> In using emacs I'm encountering a problem that I find quite irritating:
> (very) frequently when *I start a search with Ctrl-s*, the region from the
> current position of the cursor to the location of searched for item gets
> selected (colored). Does anyone know how to avoid this unwanted selection?

Turn off transient-mark-mode.  In your ~/.emacs:

 (setq-default transient-mark-mode nil)