[ESS] Losing Mark in Knitr block

[Ista Zahn]

FWIW I see exactly the same behavior Steve describes, though my
polymode is slightly out-of-date; I have polymode-20140614.1301
installed from melpa.

Best,
Ista

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Steve Lianoglou
<lianoglou.steve at gene.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Steve Lianoglou
> Computational Biologist
> Genentech
>
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