* bug#42842: 27.0.91; indent-rigidly deactivates the mark with no visual cues
@ 2020-08-13 8:19 Nicolas Richard
2020-10-16 15:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Nicolas Richard @ 2020-08-13 8:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 42842
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* bug#42842: 27.0.91; indent-rigidly deactivates the mark with no visual cues
2020-08-13 8:19 bug#42842: 27.0.91; indent-rigidly deactivates the mark with no visual cues Nicolas Richard
@ 2020-10-16 15:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2020-10-16 15:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nicolas Richard; +Cc: 42842
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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