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: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 20:19:02 +0200 Message-ID: <83mtxm0vzd.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> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19716"; 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 Wed Jan 06 19:20:10 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 1kxDPm-00051b-2Z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 19:20:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42932 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxDPl-0008QC-30 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxDPe-0008P7-53 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33958) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxDPd-0003OM-RZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:20:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kxDPd-0007ja-Ml for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:20:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 18:20:01 +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=B45617.160995715429663 (code B ref 45617); Wed, 06 Jan 2021 18:20:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 45617) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Jan 2021 18:19:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45502 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kxDOr-0007iN-Us for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:19:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58662) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kxDOn-0007i6-63 for 45617@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:19:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38179) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxDOh-0002rI-Mv; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3019 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxDOg-0004f9-EI; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:19:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8735ze9e09.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 06 Jan 2021 19:44:30 +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:197442 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , <45617@debbugs.gnu.org> > Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 19:44:30 +0200 > > > For my two cents, what you write sounds like the real problem is the > > minibuffer failing to restore on exit. A fix to that would be preferable to > > the patch. After all, who knows what else may affected by the minibuffer! > > I'd be happy to test this alternative. > > 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.