From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10056: 24.0.91; Mark deactivation Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:41:21 -0800 Message-ID: <0139B55A9A504DE180FC189491666C53@us.oracle.com> References: <87wqws48gn.fsf@mail.jurta.org><87pq2kvzix.fsf@mail.jurta.org><3A9C4978E1D547E291D780F57506CD26@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359135721 31962 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2013 17:42:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:42:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10056@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Dani Moncayo'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 25 18:42:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TynIB-0000qm-SP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:42:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46630 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TynHu-0006tF-BC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:42:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TynHm-0006px-Cu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:42:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TynHl-0003us-1h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44032) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TynHk-0003ul-V6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:41:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TynHt-0006U4-TY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:42:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:42:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10056 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10056-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10056.135913570024896 (code B ref 10056); Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:42:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10056) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Jan 2013 17:41:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49496 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TynHX-0006TU-Ic for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:41:40 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:40064) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TynHV-0006TO-BH for 10056@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:41:38 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id r0PHfQnv012600 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:41:27 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r0PHfPUr007563 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:41:26 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt109.oracle.com (abhmt109.oracle.com [141.146.116.61]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id r0PHfPqa026251; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:41:26 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.189.45) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:41:25 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac36+GUukRT8ZXoTRLGCkZkahXEBCwAKbWYQ In-Reply-To: X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:70310 Archived-At: > I've just noticed a new case where the mark is not deactivated, when > it clearly should (IMO): after `eval-region'. Why should it? Even when used interactively (and certainly when not!), a user can want to do something else with the active region after evaluating it. Yes, s?he can always hit `C-x C-x C-x C-x' to reactivate it (there is probably a shorter way to do it nowadays, but I still have that habit). But the question is why? What's the reason to deactivate the region after `eval-region'? To be clear, I have no particular objection that I can think of offhand. But I don't see why the behavior should be changed. "If it ain't broke don't fix it." IOW, please argue a bit in favor of the change for this specific command - some reasons, please. Wrt your footnote [2]: Why should we deactivate the region for _any_ command when it is called non-interactively? That doesn't make sense to me (yet - but I'm willing to learn why).