[ESS] Losing Mark in Knitr block

[Vitalie Spinu]

 >>> 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? 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?


 Vitalie