From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: select-active-regions, Emacs not X
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:35:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwxwxau7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C7BE2FA.6080003@easy-emacs.de> ("Andreas Röhler"'s message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:57:30 +0200")
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-30 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-30 12:14 select-active-regions, Emacs not X Andreas Röhler
2010-08-30 14:18 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-30 16:57 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-30 17:35 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-08-30 18:44 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-30 19:27 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-31 5:54 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-31 9:38 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-31 10:18 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-31 8:08 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-31 10:13 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-31 21:45 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-02 10:33 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-09-02 15:15 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-02 16:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-02 16:45 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-09-02 21:56 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-03 6:11 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-09-03 6:47 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-03 8:45 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-09-03 9:00 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-03 9:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-09-03 9:55 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-03 10:30 ` Andreas Röhler
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