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Re: mouse paste completely broken


From: Stephen Berman
Subject: Re: mouse paste completely broken
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:03:42 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:44:34 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden> 
wrote:

[...]
> Note that I can replicate similar issues in emacs 23.2, really:
>
> emacs -Q
> C-x 3
> shift-select "is for notes" in LHS *scratch*. It is highlighted.
> C-x o to RHS *scratch*
>
> Everything from the start of "is for notes" to the end of the buffer is
> highlighted, because that's where the point was in the other window, and
> select-window is "naive" (it just warps to the point saved in the the window).
>
> A fix for select-active-regions somewhat similar to the zero-length regions
> fix proposed approach should certainly be possible - really we don't want to
> propagate the active region of a newly switched-to-window until it "really"
> changes anew post-restoration.

I would be very happy if someone would fix this; I reported it as
bug#6316 but that has gotten no feedback yet.

Steve Berman




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