From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#45617: loses the edit region. Works in 23.3, broke in 26.3 Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:36:36 +0200 Message-ID: <8335zclet7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <000001d6e16c$984bcb70$c8e36250$@net> <83turycc18.fsf@gnu.org> <87ble4ob6v.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <000601d6e2ea$8f6601e0$ae3205a0$@net> <877dorkznt.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <002701d6e39b$4ac35680$e04a0380$@net> <8735ze9e09.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83mtxm0vzd.fsf@gnu.org> <8735zcpouq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3132"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bobfloyd@comcast.net, 45617@debbugs.gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 20:38:03 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kxb6h-0000hI-Lc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 20:38:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39812 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxb6g-0006p0-OH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:38:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxb5j-00063T-Ig for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:37:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:37161) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxb5i-0003wO-2Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:37:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kxb5i-0000gY-02 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:37:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:37:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 45617 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 45617-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B45617.16100482052610 (code B ref 45617); Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:37:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 45617) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Jan 2021 19:36:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48707 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kxb5R-0000g2-Gj for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:36:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45754) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kxb5P-0000fn-Bc for 45617@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:36:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34960) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxb5J-0003qR-Bg; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:36:37 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3188 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxb5H-0001Kn-JZ; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:36:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8735zcpouq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 07 Jan 2021 20:46:05 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:197503 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: bobfloyd@comcast.net, 45617@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 20:46:05 +0200 > > >> The question we need to answer: should this fix affect all other uses > >> of the minibuffer? So for any command that operates on the active region > >> and asks its arguments from the minibuffer, when you copy the text > >> from the original buffer to the minibuffer and thus change its region, > >> should quitting the minibuffer restore the original region for > >> all such commands? This means restoring the original mark and point. > > > > I think the answer is YES, especially if we did behave like that in > > the distant past. > > Interesting, this means this behavior was changed intentionally > in a recent version? AFAICT, it did change, but only slightly.