From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse paste completely broken Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:03:42 +0200 Message-ID: <8739v3c48x.fsf@escher.home> References: <4C4DE616.7090001@gnu.org> <4C4F48CC.3040900@gnu.org> <4C4F6F62.7060500@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280311571 10403 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2010 10:06:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:06:11 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 28 12:06:10 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oe3Wc-0001W4-1W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:06:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55259 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oe3Wb-000750-4C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:06:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44467 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oe3WN-00072j-G9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:05:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oe3UT-0006jX-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54781) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oe3US-0006jK-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:03:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oe3UO-0000Qj-6Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:03:52 +0200 Original-Received: from i59f546f8.versanet.de ([89.245.70.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:03:52 +0200 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i59f546f8.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:03:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i59f546f8.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:127927 Archived-At: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:44:34 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden wrote: [...] > Note that I can replicate similar issues in emacs 23.2, really: > > emacs -Q > C-x 3 > shift-select "is for notes" in LHS *scratch*. It is highlighted. > C-x o to RHS *scratch* > > Everything from the start of "is for notes" to the end of the buffer is > highlighted, because that's where the point was in the other window, and > select-window is "naive" (it just warps to the point saved in the the window). > > A fix for select-active-regions somewhat similar to the zero-length regions > fix proposed approach should certainly be possible - really we don't want to > propagate the active region of a newly switched-to-window until it "really" > changes anew post-restoration. I would be very happy if someone would fix this; I reported it as bug#6316 but that has gotten no feedback yet. Steve Berman