From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBSw7ZobGVy?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: select-active-regions, Emacs not X Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:44:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4C7BFC0A.1060806@online.de> References: <4C7BA0A2.9030602@easy-emacs.de> <87sk1wdw0y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C7BE2FA.6080003@easy-emacs.de> <87fwxwxau7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283193913 23573 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2010 18:45:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 20:45:10 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq9Lx-0001aT-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:45:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47067 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq9Lx-0006h6-AG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37885 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq9Lr-0006g7-Bu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq9Lq-0004Y0-08 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:62382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq9Lp-0004X9-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:45:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4dbc633f.pool.mediaWays.net [77.188.99.63]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LmgTP-1POOAj39EJ-00Zevb; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:44:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: <87fwxwxau7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:7vcWEUxXp74Wtm/xls4OzLrPeWzWvG2zLl9DAI/RIU7 hEepVrW0yp87G9N3XTHMADw/LdV54l6i3A+d14VzuNkuJKoKHH uG3OMfKii8Uvs9fXv/BsghbNVnYTAVJZCeMQQ+CYedpJnHiTiv jPajaa4B5gy0LxdxvbhdbXgX2kp3rDTNmn5bVyWFIdnsAk9RE7 0yrXCuCK+LiznGaWtTxAZCUpLIRBTUKFTa3b71C6Ko= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:129446 Archived-At: Am 30.08.2010 19:35, schrieb Chong Yidong: > Andreas Röhler writes: > > >> Doesn't meet my observations. >> >> In the original case cursor motion followed an exchange-point-and-mark >> over a string found. Afterwards, moving the cursor, any active region >> went into the clipboard. Next yank got it from there. Whilst the >> string found and copied has been expected, but was not returned. >> >> Ie got some arbitrary content resp. to the move away from the match-point. >> > This description is too vague. Could you please provide a precise, > step-by-step recipe, starting from `emacs -Q'? > > >> The big difference IMHO is the cursor-motion-region-setting in emacs. >> In X, regions are expressingly marked, while in Emacs it just the >> difference beween point and any previously set mark. >> > select-active-regions only takes effect when Transient Mark mode is > enabled, which means the region is explicitly marked. Again, if this is > not what you see, please provide a step-by-step recipe, starting from > `emacs -Q', to demonstrate the problem. > > > emacs -Q with empty buffer, insert foo (kill-new (buffer-substring-no-properties 1 4)) asdf eval before "asdf" push-mark there --thats done in my programm exchange-point-and-mark-- move cursor down - region gets highlighted yank ==> asdf IMHO pure cursor move should not send the region to clipboard per default. OTOH that seems a useful feature for mouse-regions Thanks Andreas