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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs highlighted region expanding with scrollbar movement
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:38:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5308B678.7000500@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lea2mm$uvu$1@ger.gmane.org>

Am 22.02.2014 12:46, schrieb Raimund Steger:
> Hi,
>
> I've only recently upgraded to Emacs 24 (GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-pc-solaris2.11, Motif Version 2.1.0)). Before, I used Emacs 22 for the most part, but also Emacs 23
> (briefly) in some environments.
>
> I noticed that apparently starting with Emacs 23, the highlighted region behaves differently when dragging the scrollbar handle with the mouse. As the highlighted region
> moves out of the visible area of the window, the highlighting is suddenly expanded to follow the point. This means it is not possible anymore to leave something highlighted
> and pan around in the file at the same time.
>
> I have transient-mark-mode turned off, but changing its value does not change the described behavior. Also, it is reproducible with 'emacs -Q' and seems to happen for GTK
> builds as well.
>
> Is there some way to turn this off? Or am I missing something here?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Raimund
>
>
>

May confirm this behavior with Emacs 24.3.50.1. of 2013-07-06

Would call it focus-follows-scroll

I.e. if region-end is expected to be scrolled downward out of sight, cursor will remain at first line and thus expanding the region.

Would suggest a feature request, which would mean: no visible cursor displayed in this case.






  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-22 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-22 11:46 Emacs highlighted region expanding with scrollbar movement Raimund Steger
2014-02-22 14:38 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2014-02-22 14:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-22 20:12     ` Raimund Steger
2014-02-22 21:05       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-22 20:46     ` Andreas Röhler

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