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: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 10:58:25 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F5E06B1.2050507@yahoo.com> References: <3F575F5D.3040600@yahoo.com> <3F58D93F.2000005@yahoo.com> <3F5CAAA7.7050709@yahoo.com> <3F5CEB6A.2080705@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 1063128759 8670 80.91.224.253 (9 Sep 2003 17:32:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 09 19:32:37 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 19wmM1-0007ZH-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 19:32:37 +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 19wmKD-0005nX-7q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 13:30:45 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeeder.edisontel.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1063126702 21388103 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:116471 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:12390 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12390 Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>>Is this a bug that I should report? >>> >>>No, you just want to turn on transient-mark-mode. >> >>I don't think I do. > > Why not ? Because I find it annoying -- more so than the fact that keyboard input unhighlights a mouse-selected region. But a follow-mouse.el user complained to me that mouse-movement events also unhighlight the region, and I was trying to find out why (follow-mouse.el turns on track-mouse) when I discovered that keyboard input also unhighlights the region. -- Kevin Rodgers