From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
Cc: 18590@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18590: 24.3.93; Scrolling changes/forgets selection
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:09:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr3ytj81r.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppedf1iw.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (N. Jackson's message of "Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:42:31 -0300")
>> Yes, there's a good reason: a selection in Emacs is always between
>> point and the mark, and when scrolling causes it to go off the
>> displayed portion of the buffer, Emacs moves point to bring it back
>> into view, which changes the selected portion of the text.
> Hmm... I see. But why does point need to be visible?
A design decision. As mentioned in
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9616623/ctrl-up-down-style-scrolling-in-emacs/9807039#9807039,
the behavior you expect could be implemented, but nobody bothered to do
so yet.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-30 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-30 13:07 bug#18590: 24.3.93; Scrolling changes/forgets selection N. Jackson
2014-09-30 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-30 17:42 ` N. Jackson
2014-09-30 17:56 ` martin rudalics
2014-09-30 19:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-30 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-30 18:09 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.10089.1412098998.1147.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-01 13:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-10-01 14:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-01 14:59 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-13 0:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-13 0:50 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
[not found] <<87k34li7ex.fsf@moondust.localdomain>
[not found] ` <<83ppedkwrs.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-09-30 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-30 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <<69d7a976-96b7-49c6-bb96-e69f2fa8c93e@default>
[not found] ` <<83fvf9ktwd.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-09-30 16:43 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-30 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<4a1fd296-dc2f-4fb3-a854-0b4acea62f72@default>
[not found] ` <<8361g5kpqb.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-09-30 17:10 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-30 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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