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Re: change in Emacs highlighting behavior
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: change in Emacs highlighting behavior |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:18:32 +0000 (UTC) |
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tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-RELEASE (i386)) |
mafaeq <gautam.chinta@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 and since the upgrade,
> emacs has been behaving differently. Specifically, when I left-click on
> the scroll scrollbar, it sets a mark whenever the cursor moves,
> causing the region betw where the cursor was and where it is to become
> highlighted. This also happens if I left-click and drag along the
> scrollbar.
Sorry, can't help you here (I don't use scrollbars or the mouse), but ...
> This is the version of emacs that I am using:
> GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.0)
> of 2009-09-27 on palmer, modified by Debian
This is not a released version of Emacs. It is almost certainly a
"pretest", i.e. a beta test version, released by the Emacs development
team to those willing to test it. A released version would have a number
like "23.1.1", where "23" is the major version, "1" the minor version,
and "1" meaning it's the first time it's been compiled.
> I've tried removing and re-installing emacs and I've deleted my .emacs
> file and .emacs.d directory, just to make sure there was nothing there
> causing this.
You can start with "emacs -Q", which avoids loading your .emacs etc., to
check that it's Emacs at fault and not your own files.
> Oh also, when I start emacs I get the following message in the terminal
> (emacs:3741): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
> I don't know if that is related, but it's also new since the upgrade to
> 9.10
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
If you are a public spirited person, you should send a bug report to
Ubuntu or even Debian. Though, best of luck finding a person willing to
accept blame.
Otherwise, I'd recommend you to download the latest stable, released
version from this address:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.1.tar.bz2
(or one of the other files in the same directory (there are MS-Windows
versions there too)), and unpack, build and install it. That version
would work properly. With a modern DSL line and a modern PC, this whole
process would take less than an hour
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).