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bug#42842: 27.0.91; indent-rigidly deactivates the mark with no visual c
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#42842: 27.0.91; indent-rigidly deactivates the mark with no visual cues |
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Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:54:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Nicolas Richard <nrichard@members.fsf.org> writes:
> C-x TAB deactivates the mark before running any other command.
> I don't think it's appropriate :
>
> if I use C-x TAB <right> <right>
> then I can see the mark is still active (the region is highlighted).
> but if I now use a command which uses the active region (e.g. M-% or TAB),
> it doesn't act on the region anymore.
[...]
> My suggestion is to either revert 9ae89c2c99c or add a note in the
> docstring, e.g :
>
>> Typing any other key deactivates the transient mode. If
>> transient-mark-mode is enabled, it also deactivates the mark. It can
>> be reactivated using \\[exchange-point-and-mark]
Thansk, I've now added something like this to the doc string in Emacs
28, but left the last line out -- it makes it sound like there's
something special this command does, and exchange-point-and-mark always
does this (when transient mark mode is in use).
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