[ESS] Losing Mark in Knitr block

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>> Steve Lianoglou on Sun, 17 Aug 2014 07:24:54 -0700 wrote:
>
>  > Sorry for spamming :-)
>  > Small update: it turns the bit about this highlight behavior only
>  > effecting the "form" and not the "function" isn't quite right.
>
>  > Although somehow this lost highlighting doesn't affect killing and
>  > yanking text, other more mundane things are hosed. For instance, if I
>  > make one of these moves and simply hit backspace or some other
>  > character (to nuke the whole chunk from the point to the beginning of
>  > the selection/mark) it acts as if there is no selection and just acts
>  > as a solitary backspace/keystroke.
>
>
> Are you sure you are using a recent version of polymode?

Yup -- I even pulled the latest from git before posting my question to
make sure I hadn't missed something.

> The highlight
> of the region should not disappear when you cross the boundaries. This
> was a feature pretty much from the beginning of it. What is the value of
> `transient-mark-mode` for you?

If I punch alt-shift-; and then type transient-mark-mode in the
minibuffer, I get "t"

-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
Computational Biologist
Genentech