Visual mode permanently activates transient-mark-mode

Wed Dec 3 14:52:33 CET 2014

Frank Fischer <frank-fischer at shadow-soft.de> writes:

> 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?

Evil from Git 8e68e38.

GNU Emacs 25.0.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2014-11-18

Thanks.