From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shift selection using interactive spec Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:48:45 +0100 Message-ID: <47DF73DD.4020201@gmx.at> References: <87k5k69p92.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200803140408.m2E47hPU014494@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87prtxpekk.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87abl11ilo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <874pb9koyw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87od9gzqv9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87bq5gytbi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8763vndi0r.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87hcf6ratt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878x0if9ul.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87od9e9gnx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <873aqp5mzs.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <47DEEF89.2040602@gmx.at> <47DEF2AE.3080200@gmail.com> <47DF11F3.1080809@emf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.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 1205826635 4665 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2008 07:50:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:50:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , "Kim F. Storm" , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thomas Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 18 08:51:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JbWb8-0007LE-Vt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:51:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbWaZ-0001vH-3Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbWYu-00014e-Ce for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbWYs-00013o-NJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbWYs-00013Y-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:48:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbWYs-0006ut-08 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:48:42 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2008 07:48:40 -0000 Original-Received: from N719P027.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.33.219]) [62.47.33.219] by mail.gmx.net (mp048) with SMTP; 18 Mar 2008 08:48:40 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+LiQMIl6+LIWA5fmW7Fniu+fZDe+euw5J5xwlnSe 2AuaH2jMBf/tsu User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <47DF11F3.1080809@emf.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92871 Archived-At: > E.g., in a browser, double click on a word, selecting > it. Now scroll so that is out of view. Type C-c to > copy the selection. You copied the originally selected word. > In Emacs, when you scroll the point moves if it has > to to stay in the window. Here no program (editor, browser, mua, file-manager, viewer, packer) but Emacs deactivates or mutilates highlighting of a region while scrolling. People used to that behavior will simply stop using Emacs as one person on bug-gun-emacs probably did last year.