Re: Mark handling (Was: Changes to emacs/lisp/progmodes/grep.el)

[dapfy@t-online.de (Daniel Pfeiffer)]

Saluton, Moin,

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> skribis:

>     I don't care about this itself.  The bug is that after this, the mark is
>     not active.  If I do (for example)  drag click M->  it says "Mark set". 
>     But then M-w  complains "The mark is not active now".
> 
> That does not happen for me.  The code in keyboard.c turns off the
> temporary transient mark mode after the next command, but it does not
> deactivate the mark.

I don't know why you don't get this.  I just rebuilt a new CVS Emacs, and even
with -q it still happens.

> Can you debug why the mark gets deactivated?

I haven't got a clue on how to debug something that depends on the events
Emacs gets.  Here are the events I give it:

<down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> M-> M-w <f1> l

And the resulting messages:

Loading mwheel...done
(.emacs.d/cvs/src/emacs -q /etc/passwd)
Loading tooltip...done
Loading image...done
Note: file is write protected
Mark set
The mark is not active now
Loading help-mode...done

I also happens with writable files, but I chose one that would not load some
special mode.

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Daniel Pfeiffer

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