[ESS] How to stop highlighting after eval-region

[Jason Thomas]

Hi all,

The suggested fix (M-x customize-variable ess-eval-deactivate-mark)
did the trick (Thanks, Leo!!).  And sorry for the delayed response (I 
tried responding earlier, but had to update my email address to do this -- 
long time user and fan of ESS :) and I think this is holding up my 
first reply).

Best Wishes,
Jason

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Martin Maechler wrote:

>>>>>> "RoSp" == Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
>>>>>>     on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:49:51 -0500 writes:
>
>    RoSp> On 03/17/10 03:10 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>    LA> Try customizing the variable ess-eval-deactivate-mark
>    LA> and set it to t (M-x customize-variable
>    LA> ess-eval-deactivate-mark).
>    >>
>    >> Thank you, Leo, for helping..
>    >>
>    LA> (IMO, it should be true by default).
>    >>
>    >> I'd tend to agree: It has been true for me "forever".
>    >>
>    >> OTOH, I tend to be very reluctant in changing *defaults*
>    >> of functions I write (in R, or Emacs lisp, ...):
>    >> In theory, all calls of such a function (which does not
>    >> explicitly set the option explicitly) would have to be
>    >> reconsidered...
>    >>
>    >> OTOH, I also do agree that a change seems sensible.
>    >> Note that this is only visible for those of us who have
>    >> activated "transient mark mode" aka
>    >> "Active Region Highlighting"
>    >> ( = first entry of Emacs menu 'Options' )
>    >>
>    >> What do others ESS-lovers (and particularly experts)
>    >> think about such a proposed change?
>    >>
>    >> Martin Maechler
>
>    RoSp> Perhaps I'm being dense, but does this actually fix the
>    RoSp> problem?  I haven't seen a response from Jason.  And
>    RoSp> the circumstances of his problem would suggest not (it worked
>    RoSp> before, but after an upgrade of ESS, it doesn't).
>
> well, I guess he updated ESS and Emacs at the same time, or
> changed his emacs configurations slightly, possibly
> inadvertently...
>
> It's definitely true that the ess-eval-deactivate-mark  variable
> controls the behavior we are talking about.
>
> Jason, can you please try the recommendation and publicly
> confirm (or deny) that it helps ?
>
>    RoSp> As this seems to be an Emacs-only issue, I can see no
>    RoSp> objection provided it is actually needed and sufficiently tested.
>
> Thanks.  .. Of course "sufficiently tested" maybe too hard: We
> (ESS developers) have only a few incantations of Emacs that we
> use regularly, and there are not too many ESS users volunteering
> to work with the devel-version of ESS on a regular basis.
>
> Martin.
>

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Jason Thomas
Research Associate
Center for Demography and Ecology
University of Wisconsin-Madison