Visual mode permanently activates transient-mark-mode

Frank Fischer frank-fischer at shadow-soft.de
Wed Dec 3 13:27:26 CET 2014


On 01.12.2014 16:23, Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> 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.

This does not happen for me. Which Evil/Emacs version do you use?

Frank






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