Re: select-active-regions, Emacs not X

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>]

Am 30.08.2010 19:35, schrieb Chong Yidong:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>  writes:
>
>    
>> Doesn't meet my observations.
>>
>> In the original case cursor motion followed an exchange-point-and-mark
>> over a string found.  Afterwards, moving the cursor, any active region
>> went into the clipboard. Next yank got it from there.  Whilst the
>> string found and copied has been expected, but was not returned.
>>
>> Ie got some arbitrary content resp. to the move away from the match-point.
>>      
> This description is too vague.  Could you please provide a precise,
> step-by-step recipe, starting from `emacs -Q'?
>
>    
>> The big difference IMHO is the cursor-motion-region-setting in emacs.
>> In X, regions are expressingly marked, while in Emacs it just the
>> difference beween point and any previously set mark.
>>      
> select-active-regions only takes effect when Transient Mark mode is
> enabled, which means the region is explicitly marked.  Again, if this is
> not what you see, please provide a step-by-step recipe, starting from
> `emacs -Q', to demonstrate the problem.
>
>
>    

emacs -Q

with empty buffer, insert

foo
(kill-new (buffer-substring-no-properties 1 4)) asdf

eval before "asdf"
push-mark there --thats done in my programm exchange-point-and-mark--
move cursor down - region gets highlighted

yank

==> asdf

IMHO pure cursor move should not send the region to clipboard per default.
OTOH that seems a useful feature for mouse-regions

Thanks

Andreas