Re: Highlighting bug

[Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:46 AM Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo <
jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> After the merge from emacs-26, the highlighting of a region
> stopped working for me after setting the mark or selecting a
> region with the mouse.
>
> I bisected the problem and it was introduced in commit
> f6818e761eaafe095e07249180dc8f9a329f1473
>
> Since this seems to be related to GTK, for the record, I have
> libgtk2.0-0 version 2.24.30-4. But it might be relevant to let you
> know that I use openbox, run as a standalone session.
>

Thanks for posting this. I have seen this bug, but haven't yet figured out
how to consistently reproduce it.

Symptoms:

C-SPC M-f

(nothing happens! the text does not get selected (or doesn't seem to))

Then I do M-x revert-buffer, and C-SPC M-f starts working again.

I have faced this infrequently, and don't yet have a clean recipe to
reproduce it.

My Emacs version:

Emacs version: GNU Emacs 26.0.60 (build 7, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
Version 2.24.23)
 of 2017-09-25, built using commit 827db6b559100153fd7dcab1ecdabd9233e906ab.

./configure options:
  --with-modules --prefix=/home/kmodi/usr_local/apps/6/emacs/emacs-26
'--program-transform-name=s/^ctags$/ctags_emacs/'
'CPPFLAGS=-I/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
-I/usr/include' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0' 'CXXFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0'
'LDFLAGS=-L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib -L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib64
-ggdb3'

Features:
  XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY
ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
GTK2 X11 MODULES

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Kaushal Modi

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