Re: mark not set after a yank

[Warren L Dodge]

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>  From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
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>  Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:00:10 -0400
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>      Very often when I do a move of the point using M-< followed by a C-w 
> emacs
>      complains about the mark not being set. emacs-21.3 and prior always 
> seems to
>      work as it should. My work around is to do c-x c-x and then c-w
>  
>      This seems to indicate the c-x c-x knows about the mark but not c-w
>  
>  That is what would happen in Transient Mark mode, I think.
>  Is it possible you enabled that mode?
>  

I do not do Transient Mark mode myself. 

This one is hard to repeat. Everytime I see it happen I try to repeat it and
it won't. The most common is the M-< as originally stated but I also see it
other times. I believe this second way is when I position the cursor at the
start of some text and then do a c-s sequence to move to some text farther
down. I'll then hit <cr> to terminate the search and then c-w to cut the text
block from the start of the search to the end of the search string. Sometimes
I would also type c-a to not cut the line I searched to.

Most of the time the c-x works fine but every so often it says mark is not
set in the buffer. Then the c-x-c-x c-w sequence works.


This first showed up in the 22.0.50 release I grabbed quite a few months ago.