Re: weird region behavior

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

> * Richard Stallman <ezf@tah.bet> [2004-06-16 12:58:22 -0400]:
>
>     > When I select a region with my mouse, it becomes yellow (as expected)
>     > and the content is saved in the kill-ring (again, as expected).
>     > If I now move the cursor with an arrow key, the yellow region does not
>     > disappear (as it did before) but is instead extended as I move the
>     > point (luckily, the content is not copied into the kill-ring), and some
>     > commands appear to be limited to the yellow region.
>
> I think this result was not intended.  Do these changes fix it?

yes, this patch restores the original behavior.

I suspect that you wanted the first command after selection to operate
on the region, right?  this does not happen (at least search is not
limited to the region).

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