From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shift selection using interactive spec Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:46:28 -0700 Message-ID: <47DFFFF4.5020509@emf.net> References: <87k5k69p92.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200803140408.m2E47hPU014494@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87prtxpekk.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87abl11ilo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <874pb9koyw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87od9gzqv9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87bq5gytbi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8763vndi0r.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87hcf6ratt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878x0if9ul.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87od9e9gnx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <873aqp5mzs.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <47DEEF89.2040602@gmx.at> <47DEF2AE.3080200@gmail.com> <47DF11F3.1080809@emf.net> <47DF73DD.4020201@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205861225 17943 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2008 17:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , "Kim F. Storm" , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 18 18:27:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jbfag-0003Od-Sk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:27:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jbfa6-0002Q4-Ld for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jbfa2-0002Pv-HI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jbfa0-0002P5-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jbfa0-0002Om-QT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:26:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.42inc.com ([205.149.0.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (SSL 3.0:RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jbfa0-00049o-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:26:28 -0400 X-TFF-CGPSA-Version: 1.5 X-TFF-CGPSA-Filter-42inc: Scanned X-42-Virus-Scanned: by 42 Antivirus -- Found to be clean. Original-Received: from [69.236.65.4] (account lord@emf.net HELO [192.168.1.64]) by mail.42inc.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPA id 25805661; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:07:22 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) In-Reply-To: <47DF73DD.4020201@gmx.at> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92907 Archived-At: martin rudalics wrote: > Here no program (editor, browser, mua, file-manager, viewer, packer) but > Emacs deactivates or mutilates highlighting of a region while scrolling. > People used to that behavior will simply stop using Emacs as one person > on bug-gun-emacs probably did last year. A related one is what happens when you have two windows on a single buffer. The selections in each of the two windows interfere with each other because Emacs is trying to use the mark stack for this rather than adding support for a fat cursor. -t