From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Christopher Monsanto <chris@monsan.to>
Cc: 10738@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10738: insert before setting the mark means the mark wont be set
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:24:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsjinzmej.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC5n7TE8+=3jqwxsJgJfT9g4qBTSVWkCtK3YsWdWHOwdf36Zdw@mail.gmail.com> (Christopher Monsanto's message of "Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:57:36 -0500")
>> From emacs -q, consider the following program:
> (defun foo ()
> (interactive)
> (insert "bar")
> (push-mark)
> (forward-line)
> (activate-mark))
> M-x foo, bar appears, but the mark is not set.
> (defun baz ()
> (interactive)
> (push-mark)
> (forward-line)
> (activate-mark))
> I wouldn't expect a command *before* setting the mark to affect if the
> mark was actually set. Is this a concurrency bug?
The mark gets deactivated after a command that modifies the buffer.
`foo' above is a command that modifies the buffer, so the mark is
deactivated afterwards. This is done via the
`deactivate-mark' variable.
You can let-bind it around the call to `insert' to prevent that variable
from being set.
Stefan
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2012-02-06 17:57 bug#10738: insert before setting the mark means the mark wont be set Christopher Monsanto
2012-02-06 21:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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