bug#11021: 23.4; Text client hangs when region is highlighted in another frame with mouse

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

I can't repeat this on the latest trunk.  Can you confirm that it does not 
happen on the trunk?

Thanks,

        Jan D.

15 mar 2012 kl. 15:46 skrev Phil Brooke:

> Hi,
> 
> The problem: Highlighting some text in an X frame using the mouse appears to 
> cause text clients to freeze until the region is deactivated.
> 
> Replicating the problem:
> 
>   I started a freshly-built version of emacs 23.4 with
>     ./emacs -q
>   Inside emacs, I started a server:
>     M-x server-start
> 
>   I now write some text into the *scratch* buffer (of an X frame) and
>   highlight it with the mouse (hold mouse button 1, sweep across text,
>   release button 1).
> 
>   In another xterm, I run
>     ./emacsclient -t
>   The text mode client appears to freeze until I return to the original
>   frame and press C-g, type some text or other actions to cause the
>   highlighting to disappear.  Any input I typed into the text client is
>   handled at this point.
> 
>   While emacsclient -t is running, if I now highlight some text with the
>   mouse in a frame again, it causes the text mode client to freeze.
> 
> Other X frames are unaffected, e.g., emacsclient -c brings up a frame;
> that frame is not frozen as for emacsclient -t.
> 
> The problem does not occur if I use C-space and the cursor keys to
> highlight some text in the X frame instead of using the mouse.
> 
> If I have two emacsclients running (both -t) and one sets highlights a
> region, the other emacsclient does not appear to freeze.
> 
> Some output from emacs-report-bug follows (the test machine isn't
> configured for sending email directly, so I cut'n'pasted it to a
> different machine):
> 
> In GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
> of 2012-03-15 on sirius7
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10707000
> configured using `configure  '--prefix=/home/pjb/apps/emacs-23.4' 
> '--with-gif=no''
> 
> Important settings:
>  value of $LC_ALL: en_GB.UTF-8
>  value of $LC_COLLATE: en_GB.UTF-8
>  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB.UTF-8
>  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_GB.UTF-8
>  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.UTF-8
>  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB.UTF-8
>  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.UTF-8
>  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
>  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>  default enable-multibyte-characters: t
> 
> Major mode: Info
> 
> 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-encryption-mode: t
>  auto-compression-mode: t
>  line-number-mode: t
>  transient-mark-mode: t
> 
> Recent messages:
> When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0
> GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 
> 2012-03-15 on sirius7
> When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0 [2 times]
> GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 
> 2012-03-15 on sirius7
> When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0
> Quit
> Composing main Info directory...done
> Mark saved where search started
> Mark set
> Mark saved where search started [3 times]
> 
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
> 
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> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Phil.
> 
> 
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