title: how to avoid accidentally killing text in emacs?
body: <p>I have a highlighting mode (forget what it's called) that shows me, through highlighting the text, what region I have selected between mark and point. this comes in very handy when killing regions. However, sometimes, even when no text is visibly highlighted but i accidentally press C-w it still occasionally kills some text. My question is how do i stop this behaviour? I only want it to kill text IF i've highlighted it.</p>