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Elmer Ph.D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11989: mark region unreliable in 24.1 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:13:59 -0400 Message-ID: <1343049239.32613.3.camel@belmer> References: <1342706820.24101.11.camel@belmer> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343049662 11292 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2012 13:21:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11989@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 23 15:21:00 2012 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 1StIZ8-0002KE-Jj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:20:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56762 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StIZ7-0002Fm-T8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:20:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57913) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StIYw-0001r2-I2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:20:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StIYm-000295-W2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:20:38 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:50349) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StIYm-000291-TD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:20:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1StIf8-0004Mm-IE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:27:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Brent S. 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Violators will be prosecuted; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:14:24 -0400 Original-Received: from d01relay05.pok.ibm.com (d01relay05.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.237]) by d01dlp03.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10138C9007C for <11989@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:14:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (d03av06.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.245]) by d01relay05.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q6NDEDOC368844 for <11989@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:14:13 -0400 Original-Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q6NDFAD2029560 for <11989@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:15:10 -0600 Original-Received: from [9.61.249.175] (belmer.btv.ibm.com [9.61.249.175]) by d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id q6NDF9Mb029390; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:15:09 -0600 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2-1 X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12072313-8974-0000-0000-00000B6B99B8 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 (newer, 2) 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:62307 Archived-At: On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 05:39 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I then move the cursor to the end of the region I want to mark. I then > > do something like CTL-w or ALT-w to cut or copy the region. Sometimes > > the region gets marked and sometimes it doesn't. I read through the > > Could you be more specific? "The region gets marked" means (to me) that > the region gets highlighted, which should already happen while you "move > the cursor to the end of the region". So do you see the region being > highlighted while you move the "cursor" (which I call point)? If you > do, then what is it that really "doesn't work"? > > Try to be super specific since most likely the thing that matters is > for you an irrelevant detail you don't even notice. > > > Stefan Bug # 11588 looks very similar to what I am talking about. Using CTL-spc to set the mark for a region and then using left mouse click to mark the end of the region does not work every time like it did in emacs 23 and before. Years and years of marking regions like this and then with emacs 24 it not working anymore is frustrating. Brent