bug#8189: 24.0.50; indenting region with TAB deactivates region

[Gregor Zattler]

This is a wishlist bug, since it seems quite usefull if it was possible
to indent a region several times without the necessity to reactivate the
region:

 - Start Emacs (emacs -Q)
 - Set text-mode in the *scratch* buffer. (text-mode).
 - Select the first 3 lines.
 - Type <TAB>

What I was expecting:
 - The selected lines move to the next tab-stop.
 - The region remains active, so that I can repeat the indentation
   several times in a row.

What I see:
 - The indentation of the lines depends on emacs version
   (regression bug filed as bug #8187, see
    http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8187)
 - The region is deactivated.

This bug report is about deactivating the region.  I don't know if it's
easy to fix this but it would be nice if it would be possible to indent
the region several times by simply hitting TAB several times.

[Bug report stolen from:
   From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
   Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 00:17:46 +0100
   Message-ID: <AANLkTikY9vi0EQf-g3HyUv=0smRCj2nBwFsGoGB6y2an@mail.gmail.com>
   To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
   Subject: Indenting paragraphs manually
]


Thanks for your attention, Gregor




In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2011-02-25 on keller, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20110224-1)
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10904000
configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host' 
'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' 
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' 
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
 '--without-compress-info' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 
'--with-imagemagick=yes' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 
'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g 
-O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: de_DE.utf8
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.utf8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: POSIX
  value of $LC_MONETARY: de_DE.utf8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: de_DE.utf8
  value of $LC_TIME: de_DE.utf8
  value of $LANG: de_DE.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> C-y <down> 
<down> <up> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <right> 
<right> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <prior> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <prior> 
<prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <down> 
<down> <down> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> <prior> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <down> <left> <left> <left> <left> <right> 
<right> <backspace> <backspace> n e t <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> t e l e g r a p 
h C-a C-k C-k C-y C-y <up> B c c : SPC <down> <down> 
<down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> C-c C-c y e s <return> 
M-x <up> <return>

Recent messages:
Mark set
byte-code: End of buffer [24 times]
scroll-down-command: Beginning of buffer [7 times]
byte-code: Beginning of buffer [4 times]
Mark set [2 times]
byte-code: Beginning of buffer [8 times]
Auto-saving...done
Sending...
Sending via mail...
Sending...done

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/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
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/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/hex-util
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/sha1 hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/sha1
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/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/hmac-def hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/hmac-def
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/sasl-cram hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/sasl-cram
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/flim/sasl-digest hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/sasl-digest
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/site-lisp/emms/tq hides 
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/tq

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