From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how and why does keyboard input unhighlight the mouse-selected region? Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:43:11 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F58D93F.2000005@yahoo.com> References: <3F575F5D.3040600@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062805761 8230 80.91.224.253 (5 Sep 2003 23:49:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 23:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 01:49:19 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19vQKN-0007kC-00 for ; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 01:49:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19vQCR-0006AM-Px for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:41:07 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1062787380 18236957 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116396 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12315 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12315 Sandip Chitale wrote: > This may be the answer. > > deactivate-mark's value is t > > Documentation: > If an editing command sets this to t, deactivate the mark afterward. > The command loop sets this to nil before each command, > and tests the value when the command returns. > Buffer modification stores t in this variable. Yes, but even if I set it to nil with `M-:', select a region with the mouse, and type a prefix character (C-h), the highlighting goes away. I can examine its value with `M-:' after selecting the region, which verifies that it is still nil. Merely typing a key causes the the highlighting to disappear, even though no command has been executed. -- Kevin Rodgers