Sorry for reporting this bug here, but BitBucket refuses to work saying "CSRF verification failed. Request aborted." for whatever I try to do on it. I have transient-mark-mode deactivated on my .emacs. Entering Visual mode activates it (which is fine) but after exiting Visual mode it remains active (i.e. `transient-mark-mode' var is assigned `t'.) In Evil's sources I see some complex machinery dealing with transient-mark-mode, so it is not a case of the devs assuming that all users have transient-mark-mode on its default setting (active). To reproduce: emacs -Q load and activate Evil. M-x transient-mark-mode C-h v transient-mark-mode Check that the value is nil v ESC (enter and exit visual mode) C-h v transient-mark-mode Now the value is t.