From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs highlighted region expanding with scrollbar movement Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:38:48 +0100 Message-ID: <5308B678.7000500@easy-emacs.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393079696 2730 80.91.229.3 (22 Feb 2014 14:34:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:34:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 22 15:35:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WHDfT-0000RU-Fj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:35:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHDfT-0002iY-0R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43779) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHDfB-0002e8-V5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:34:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHDf4-0005dV-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:34:45 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:54552) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHDf4-0005d8-7h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from purzel.sitgens (brln-4d0ca461.pool.mediaWays.net [77.12.164.97]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreue005) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MGDrv-1WWHwS130p-00FD03; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:34:35 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:V+CXz2JsSQchmOym5f2/qlhQ+xcg1HLOV0gC0u3Ttvz zmMiFGqyX3E1x8lIfi12CFPLUqmkXKwgPPNQkMvhaQ2XqC/Brk su7J++hm4qUF9RDoUOP2/7Ic590qkDanN0Ia72wnqjemb3WAJV Hopk7/1xjKFY0CGPzYBHxGTe56bPsOIdIm/B+msYkKaDvs5YgH GqxxUkIMj1BImuLUxWwgHwQWVudaXOJW1OAwq844jLbGamYKa0 wdiHT695N72KfQhXqxCRf66r3sS2mfWJC2Q+YDIEzaCzw8jrRI 6eXsmbos4fEEmUCYymyFMsUmALXQ0WEGZnA26JIAXHLaklrUNM qmL1ObCGEo67z0kQOKLq0vkLChAzFTTR0THS/j6ix X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96172 Archived-At: 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.