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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
	10056@debbugs.gnu.org, Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#10056: 24.0.91; `copy-to-register' does not deactivate the mark
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:42:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw6o1uze.fsf@altern.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8Pv0gnOFjwbD8zUcqze12uqYDPmcPo=8mOsQEDj62AfrVgNQ@mail.gmail.com> (Dani Moncayo's message of "Sun, 9 Sep 2012 22:20:12 +0200")

Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com> writes:

>> The way mark deactivation works is that the mark gets deactivated after
>> any command that modified the buffer (that's the basic heuristic used
>> to avoid having to change umpteen commands to explicitly deactivate-mark).
>
> I think that the general principle for deactivating the mark is not
> (and should not be) "after any command that modified the buffer", but
> "after any command that _used_ the active region (for any purpose)".

... unless it's immediately useful to reuse the active region?

But FWIW I agree in general. 

-- 
 Bastien





  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-11 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15 20:06 bug#10056: 24.0.91; `copy-to-register' does not deactivate the mark Dani Moncayo
2011-11-15 20:15 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-11-15 20:36   ` Dani Moncayo
2011-11-15 20:18 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-11-21  6:30 ` Chong Yidong
2012-06-05  7:44   ` Dani Moncayo
2012-07-28 19:01   ` Dani Moncayo
2012-07-29  4:45     ` Chong Yidong
2012-07-29  9:46       ` Dani Moncayo
2012-07-29  4:50     ` Chong Yidong
2012-07-29 10:01       ` Dani Moncayo
2012-08-01 21:17         ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-08-01 22:07           ` Dani Moncayo
2012-08-03 21:47             ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-09-08 20:21           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-09 20:20             ` Dani Moncayo
2012-09-11 14:42               ` Bastien [this message]
2012-12-05  8:04 ` bug#10056: 24.0.91; Mark deactivation Dani Moncayo
2012-12-08 10:09   ` Dani Moncayo
2012-12-08 23:03     ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-09  0:00       ` Drew Adams
2012-12-09  0:29         ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-09  3:21           ` Drew Adams
2012-12-09  9:07             ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-25 12:34               ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-25 17:41                 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-25 19:07                   ` Dani Moncayo
2013-01-25 19:34                     ` Drew Adams
2013-01-25 19:01                 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-26 13:50 ` bug#10056: 24.0.91; `copy-to-register' does not deactivate the mark Lars Ingebrigtsen

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