RE: ffap highlighting persists

[Drew Adams]

        I should add that I don't see this problem in Emacs 20, so it
        must have been introduced since then.

    Sorry; I was wrong about Emacs 20 - the problem (or feature?)
    of persistent highlighting exists in that version also. The
    only difference is that in Emacs 20 only the mouse-face is
    highlighted; in Emacs 22 the face property is also changed
    (bold, by default).

In case this is considered to be a feature, here are some arguments against
it:

1. Such mouse-face highlighting suggests a link or button - that is, it
suggests that you can click mouse-2 to follow the link. This is of course
not the case.

2. It is not needed - if you can use ffap the first time without such
highlighting, you can continue to do so without it. If you can get to all
such choices in a menu, you don't need them highlighted in the buffer.

3. It is distracting, and interferes with other highlighting.

At the very least, such persistent highlighting should be optional.