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bug#24563: kill-region fails while dragging a selection
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#24563: kill-region fails while dragging a selection |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:35:46 +0300 |
> From: Phil Ruffwind <rf@rufflewind.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:30:44 -0400
>
> Emacs 25.1 seems to have changed the behavior of doing kill-region (C-w)
> while dragging a selection in GUI mode. Here are the steps to
> reproduce:
>
> 1. Run Emacs in GUI mode via: emacs -Q
> 2. Type: M-x set-variable mark-even-if-inactive nil
> 3. Open a file containing some text.
> 4. Make a selection using the mouse, but do NOT release the mouse
> button.
> 5. Type: C-w.
>
> In Emacs 24.5, this would initially do nothing, but pressing C-w a
> second time will kill the selected region correctly.
>
> In Emacs 25.1, this fails with "The mark is not active now" and
> deselects the region.
Why is this a bug? Neither of the two behaviors is AFAIK documented,
so either could be correct. I agree that the behavior changed, most
probably because both the implementation of region highlight and the
binding of commands to the mouse have changed in Emacs 25.1. But is
there a reason not to get along with the new behavior?
Thanks for reporting this.