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Markdown mode breaks table.el?

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#194 opened on May 17, 2017

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I am having a problem with markdown mode and emacs text tables. Essentially, whenever markdown mode is activated, tables in the buffer lose their blue interiors (see screenshots). screenshot1 screenshot2

You can still enter text in cells and jump from cell to cell, but if you backspace, the whole table gets messed up and table mode becomes confused. At that point, I usually have to unrecognize the table in table.el, and then fix it up manually.

(If you open a file in markdown mode that contains tables, and ask emacs to recognize tables, it will recognize them -- but, again, no blue interiors, and very limited editing).

It seems to be specifically markdown-mode that breaks table.el. Other major and minor modes (that I've tried) coexist happily with it.

emacs: GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) markdown-mode: 2.1

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Research direction
Investigate how markdown mode modifies buffer local variables or font lock that conflicts with table.el. Check if disabling some markdown mode features restores table functionality.
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