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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
Cc: 16752@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16752: 24.3.50; pp-to-string deactivates mark
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:42:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1tz5oaux.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28uteowm7.fsf@gmail.com> (Helmut Eller's message of "Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:46:08 +0100")

forcemerge 16728 16752
thanks

> Evaluating this expression returns:
> (list deactivate-mark
>       (pp-to-string '1)
>       deactivate-mark)

deactivate-mark is a global variable and lots of functions happen to
work on internal buffers, which ends up "unwittingly" setting
deactivate-mark to t.

There are 2 directions to try and fix it:
1- let-bind deactivate-mark in functions like pp-to-string so as to
   eliminate those spurious deactivations.  But there can be many of
   them, and it doesn't solve the problem where the buffer-modification
   is done in a non-temporary buffer.
2- make deactivate-mark buffer-local.  This is "The Right Way" but
   might introduce new problems.
   E.g. we really should deactivate the mark in all the buffers that
   have their deactivate-mark set.


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-14 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-14  9:46 bug#16752: 24.3.50; pp-to-string deactivates mark Helmut Eller
2014-02-14 10:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-14 11:02   ` Helmut Eller
2014-02-14 11:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-14 11:22       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-14 11:23       ` Helmut Eller
2014-02-14 11:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-14 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-02-14 18:17   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-14 18:27     ` Helmut Eller
2014-02-14 18:38       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-14 21:00     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-15  7:14       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17  3:11         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-17  5:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17 20:27             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-17 20:46               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-18  0:05                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-18  8:31               ` Helmut Eller
2014-02-18 15:18                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-18 15:33                   ` Helmut Eller
2014-02-18 16:52                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-18 23:55   ` Alex

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