James Cox writes: > I remember someone complaining some time ago that Emacs would > inexplicably slip into transient mark mode under jdee. (Tansient mark mode > is where the area between the point and mark are highlighted). I've had > this annoying problem too for some time, and I think that I've just figured > out why. > > I've been using html32-mode to edit html files, something I do > rather infrequently. Its the second hit when I google on HTML EMACS MODE, > so I imagine there are quite a few other people using it as well. Anyways, > the problem is when I use jdee's symbol at point functionality - jdee > creates a temporary html file - which causes html32 to load. The user never > sees the buffer and is probably unaware that html32 was loaded. But the > damage is done, transient mark mode is now set. > > This really isn't jdee's fault, it's html32-mode that's behaving > badly. But I'm sure someone else has a similar setup.
Thanks, Jim, for reporting this. Would it be enough for the help for symbol at point command to detect whether transient mark mode is off before loading the html page and if it is on afterwards to turn it back off? - Paul
