* bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active
@ 2013-01-22 8:03 Leo Liu
2013-01-22 8:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-01-23 8:06 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 2 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Leo Liu @ 2013-01-22 8:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 13523
I have just wasted a few hours wondering some odd behaviour in js2-mode
but to discover it is due to change between Emacs 23 and 24.
1. (global-set-key [mouse-1] (lambda (e) (interactive "e")))
2. Mouse-1 click on a buffer and check the value of mark-active
In emacs 23 it is nil; but in emacs 24.2/24.2.92, it is t.
With mark-active set to t, some commands following mouse-1 activate the
region unexpectedly and inconveniently, for example, in js2-mode, C-a
activate the region between the mouse and line beginning.
It seems 23 and 24 is consistent only if [mouse-1] is bound to
mouse-set-point.
As a result of this bug, most customised [mouse-1] commands fail to
handle mark-active i.e. it is subtle and hard to get the customised
mouse-1 command behave like mouse-set-point leaving users with creepy
behaviour like the one I am seeing in js2 mode.
Leo
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* bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active
2013-01-22 8:03 bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active Leo Liu
@ 2013-01-22 8:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-01-22 8:59 ` Leo Liu
2013-01-23 8:06 ` Glenn Morris
1 sibling, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Dmitry Gutov @ 2013-01-22 8:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Liu; +Cc: 13523
Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> I have just wasted a few hours wondering some odd behaviour in js2-mode
> but to discover it is due to change between Emacs 23 and 24.
>
> 1. (global-set-key [mouse-1] (lambda (e) (interactive "e")))
> 2. Mouse-1 click on a buffer and check the value of mark-active
>
> In emacs 23 it is nil; but in emacs 24.2/24.2.92, it is t.
>
> With mark-active set to t, some commands following mouse-1 activate the
> region unexpectedly and inconveniently, for example, in js2-mode, C-a
> activate the region between the mouse and line beginning.
>
> It seems 23 and 24 is consistent only if [mouse-1] is bound to
> mouse-set-point.
>
> As a result of this bug, most customised [mouse-1] commands fail to
> handle mark-active i.e. it is subtle and hard to get the customised
> mouse-1 command behave like mouse-set-point leaving users with creepy
> behaviour like the one I am seeing in js2 mode.
As far as js2-mode goes, this is supposed to be fixed:
https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode/issues/77
Also see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2012-12/msg00152.html
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* bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active
2013-01-22 8:03 bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active Leo Liu
2013-01-22 8:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
@ 2013-01-23 8:06 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-23 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-24 1:20 ` Leo Liu
1 sibling, 2 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2013-01-23 8:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 13523; +Cc: Chong Yidong
So IIUC the issue can be summarized as:
down-mouse-1 runs mouse-drag-region
mouse-1 runs mouse-set-point
mouse-drag-region calls mouse-drag-track.
Since 2010-07-03 (I think), this unconditionally pushes mark.
It then uses track-mouse to watch for further mouse events.
If at the end, point has not moved and the last event was
mouse-set-point or mouse-set-region, it deactivates and pops the mark.
Otherwise it assumes it is handling a multi-click event (since
2010-07-05), and does not deactivate mark.
The result is that if you bind mouse-1 to something other than
mouse-set-point, and leave down-mouse-1 alone, then after a mouse-1 click
the mark stays active (unless you specifically deactivate it).
Examples can be seen with image-dired and rst-toc-mode, which both bind
mouse-1 but not down-mouse-1. In both cases, mouse-1 clicks leave the
mouse active. It doesn't seem to matter in either case, but probably is
not intended.
Is the intention that people bind down-mouse-1 as well/instead of
mouse-1, or that things bound to mouse-1 deactivate mark, or can the
multi-click detection be changed somehow to avoid this?
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* bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active
2013-01-23 8:06 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2013-01-23 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-27 2:16 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-24 1:20 ` Leo Liu
1 sibling, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2013-01-23 12:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: 13523, Chong Yidong
> It then uses track-mouse to watch for further mouse events.
> If at the end, point has not moved and the last event was
> mouse-set-point or mouse-set-region, it deactivates and pops the mark.
It should probably unconditionally deactivate the mark and let the
command of the up event run in the normal way.
> Is the intention that people bind down-mouse-1 as well/instead of
> mouse-1, or that things bound to mouse-1 deactivate mark, or can the
> multi-click detection be changed somehow to avoid this?
It can be changed, but IIRC this might be tricky. Partly because the
current code is pretty tricky already.
Stefan
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2013-01-23 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2013-01-27 2:16 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-28 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2013-01-27 2:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: 13523, Chong Yidong
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> If at the end, point has not moved and the last event was
>> mouse-set-point or mouse-set-region, it deactivates and pops the mark.
>
> It should probably unconditionally deactivate the mark and let the
> command of the up event run in the normal way.
This seems like something that should be fixed for 24.3, but I don't see
how to do it.
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* bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active
2013-01-27 2:16 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2013-01-28 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-30 2:00 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2013-01-28 1:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: 13523, Chong Yidong
>>> If at the end, point has not moved and the last event was
>>> mouse-set-point or mouse-set-region, it deactivates and pops the mark.
>> It should probably unconditionally deactivate the mark and let the
>> command of the up event run in the normal way.
> This seems like something that should be fixed for 24.3, but I don't see
> how to do it.
Fixing it right is clearly out of scope of 24.3, but I don't know either
how to patch it up for 24.3.
Stefan
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2013-01-28 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2013-01-30 2:00 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-31 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2013-01-30 2:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: 13523, Chong Yidong
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> If at the end, point has not moved and the last event was
>>>> mouse-set-point or mouse-set-region, it deactivates and pops the mark.
[...]
> Fixing it right is clearly out of scope of 24.3, but I don't know either
> how to patch it up for 24.3.
Can we turn the test around, so that rather than saying "deactivate the
mark if the final event was mouse-set-point or mouse-set-region", we say
"deactivate the mark unless the final event was X or Y"?
(I don't know what X or Y are, something related to multi-clicks I guess.)
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* bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active
2013-01-30 2:00 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2013-01-31 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-31 3:34 ` Glenn Morris
2013-02-01 23:41 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 2 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2013-01-31 2:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: 13523, Chong Yidong
> Can we turn the test around, so that rather than saying "deactivate the
> mark if the final event was mouse-set-point or mouse-set-region", we say
> "deactivate the mark unless the final event was X or Y"?
> (I don't know what X or Y are, something related to multi-clicks I guess.)
Can someone point out why the patch below wouldn't work?
Stefan
=== modified file 'lisp/mouse.el'
--- lisp/mouse.el 2013-01-30 17:14:24 +0000
+++ lisp/mouse.el 2013-01-31 02:45:05 +0000
@@ -880,9 +880,9 @@
(copy-region-as-kill (mark) (point)))))
;; Otherwise, run binding of terminating up-event.
+ (deactivate-mark)
(if do-multi-click
(goto-char start-point)
- (deactivate-mark)
(unless moved-off-start
(pop-mark)))
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2013-01-31 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2013-01-31 3:34 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-31 7:21 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-31 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-01 23:41 ` Stefan Monnier
1 sibling, 2 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2013-01-31 3:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: 13523, Chong Yidong
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Can we turn the test around, so that rather than saying "deactivate the
>> mark if the final event was mouse-set-point or mouse-set-region", we say
>> "deactivate the mark unless the final event was X or Y"?
>> (I don't know what X or Y are, something related to multi-clicks I guess.)
>
> Can someone point out why the patch below wouldn't work?
Won't it break dragging to select a region and activate the mark?
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* bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active
2013-01-31 3:34 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2013-01-31 7:21 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-31 7:48 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-31 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
1 sibling, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2013-01-31 7:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: 13523
Glenn Morris wrote:
>> Can someone point out why the patch below wouldn't work?
>
> Won't it break dragging to select a region and activate the mark?
Maybe not? I don't understand how any of this works...
Anyway, the conditional deactivation was introduced in r100728
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2010-07/msg00055.html
as something do with double and triple clicks.
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* bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active
2013-01-31 3:34 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-31 7:21 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2013-01-31 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
1 sibling, 0 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2013-01-31 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: 13523, Chong Yidong
>>> Can we turn the test around, so that rather than saying "deactivate the
>>> mark if the final event was mouse-set-point or mouse-set-region", we say
>>> "deactivate the mark unless the final event was X or Y"?
>>> (I don't know what X or Y are, something related to multi-clicks I guess.)
>> Can someone point out why the patch below wouldn't work?
> Won't it break dragging to select a region and activate the mark?
I don't think so, because the next command (the one bound to the
up-event) should/will activate the mark (since the next event should be
a drag-mouse-1).
And in my tests, it seems to work just fine, indeed.
> Bearing that in mind, this seems odd:
> (> (event-click-count event) 0)
> since surely event-click-count is always >= 1?
Indeed even (event-click-count ?a) returns 1, so the test seems broken.
Stefan
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* bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active
2013-01-31 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-31 3:34 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2013-02-01 23:41 ` Stefan Monnier
1 sibling, 0 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2013-02-01 23:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: Chong Yidong, 13523-done
> Can someone point out why the patch below wouldn't work?
I've installed the patch in emacs-24.
Stefan
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* bug#13523: 24.2.92; [regression] mark-active
2013-01-23 8:06 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-23 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2013-01-24 1:20 ` Leo Liu
1 sibling, 0 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Leo Liu @ 2013-01-24 1:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: 13523, Chong Yidong
On 2013-01-23 16:06 +0800, Glenn Morris wrote:
> In both cases, mouse-1 clicks leave the mouse active. It doesn't seem
> to matter in either case, but probably is not intended.
One example, C-s following mouse-1 click would unexpectedly activate
region.
Leo
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