From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6316: 24.0.50; unexpected region highlighting Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:50:37 +0200 Message-ID: <878uobswcy.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> References: <87k4qkfrz9.fsf@escher.home> <876324fe5f.fsf@escher.home> <87r4u2en2a.fsf_-_@escher.home> <8761krqq7m.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> <87wqd7osgr.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> <87mwd28fjf.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> <8738ek2jqd.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> <8270a362-a76c-46bd-bf13-fc5ff59cc911@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404309092 26080 80.91.229.3 (2 Jul 2014 13:51:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6316@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 02 15:51:25 2014 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 1X2KwR-0004l3-1i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:51:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2KwQ-0003QN-Nk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56119) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2KwH-0003PO-2W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:51:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2KwA-0002Qv-T3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2KwA-0002Qr-PN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X2KwA-0002QT-5e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stephen Berman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6316 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6316-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6316.14043090569303 (code B ref 6316); Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6316) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Jul 2014 13:50:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40031 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X2Kw0-0002Pq-0M for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:50:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:59490) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X2Kvu-0002PO-Kq for 6316@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:50:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rosalinde.fritz.box ([89.245.110.132]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LmOLO-1WTpC02iBu-00Zt8o; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:50:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <8270a362-a76c-46bd-bf13-fc5ff59cc911@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 2 Jul 2014 06:29:19 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.92 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:dzS0uUBMQk6LjkooWK6xI/qr467uoAHJpIdta/k0jnfHXnr55Uw 50qBaBeaxIJi3m+2pFBsxTO8ROmhZH3TYMA2wNo/WZB+fftQO7SEk8yri3/tIx1zHXgaESH D+Snt1JygN2nIjNCDvb11AmtowhnS4+qmXA+TB/3OfraN6FU0/fC+sUHBpJUh5bmKJg1lWN +AqrC1iy64Roj39pWhQ/A== X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x 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:91090 Archived-At: On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 06:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Drew Adams wrote: >> if you mark and highlight a region in a >> buffer and then call e.g. `C-h f' or `C-h v', when the *Help* buffer >> opens this unhighlights the region in the other buffer, although the >> latter remains the current buffer. Is this supposed to happen, and if >> so, why? (If it's not supposed to happen, I'll open a new bug.) > > `highlight-nonselected-windows' = t controls whether the region remains > highlighted in nonselected windows. As I noted, when you call `C-h f' or `C-h v', it doesn't make the *Help* buffer current, i.e., the window containing the now unhighlighted region is still selected. > But after a command the region is deactivated, so depending on your ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "After certain non-motion commands, including any command that changes the text in the buffer," according to (emacs)Mark. > recipe you will not notice the effect of the variable. IOW, in your > recipe, your command `C-h v' deactivated the region in the original > buffer. Evidently it did; but should it, and if so, why? Steve Berman