From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8996: Set PRIMARY from last selection, not last selected window Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:16:38 +0100 Message-ID: <4F7106E6.2000908@harpegolden.net> References: <4E121079.6020103@harpegolden.net> <8739illrkc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E169B83.4050706@harpegolden.net> <4E1A6689.1040203@harpegolden.net> <87pqc2b6f6.fsf@gnu.org> <4F6E91DB.30200@harpegolden.net> <4F6F29C8.50602@harpegolden.net> <87r4wgxaxq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332807478 31379 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2012 00:17:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:17:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8996@debbugs.gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 27 02:17:57 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1SCK6m-0007xD-Kq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:17:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33420 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCK6l-0007wE-PG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:17:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCK6j-0007vd-81 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCK6f-0001tt-MU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:17:52 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:33387) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCK6f-0001tj-J7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:17:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SCKar-0000Yj-Jf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:49:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: David De La Harpe Golden Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:49:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8996 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8996-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8996.13328092912084 (code B ref 8996); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:49:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8996) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Mar 2012 00:48:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40219 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SCKa2-0000XZ-Qc for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:48:11 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:53489) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SCKZm-0000Wr-8h for 8996@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.47.38] (87-198-47-38.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.47.38]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ACBFE683F4; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:16:40 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120324 Icedove/10.0.3 In-Reply-To: <87r4wgxaxq.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:58180 Archived-At: On 26/03/12 05:06, Chong Yidong wrote: > OK, I've committed a variable selection-inhibit-update-commands. Right so, thanks. Seems to work fine, and it is useful to me to be able to add entries, anyway: FWIW, in the past day of emacs use, apart from 'handle-select-window and 'handle-switch-frame, 'other-window was indeed the main case I ran into, but 'other-frame got added too. 'delete-window (and 'delete-frame too) also got pushed onto the list quickly: I was sometimes selecting something in a window then deleting that window immediately afterward, and then of course, without 'delete-window on the list, primary would then be replaced by whatever region in whatever remaining window got (re)activated, losing whatever I had expected to be in primary. Haven't felt an urge to add anything else as yet, but I guess I only use a fairly small working set of emacs commands, and of course in turn the issue will only apply to a few of them. I suppose more emacs-idiomatic use of the kill-ring would have meant I didn't encounter as many problems, so my own usage quirks aren't blameless.