bug#11588: 24.0.97; Left mouse click setting the mark every time?!??

[Tobias Bading <tbading@web.de>]

Hi,

I'm not entirely sure whether this is a bug or a feature, but selecting 
a region with a combination of keyboard and mouse doesn't work any 
longer in Emacs 24, at least not in a plain emacs -Q session. Marking 
the start of a region with C-SPC and then using a simple mouse click to 
mark the end doesn't work anymore, because clicking anywhere seems to 
set the mark now. My muscle memory, trained over decades by Emacs 23 and 
its predecessors, doesn't like this change. I keep M-w'ing and C-w'ing 
empty regions :-(. What's also a bit annoying IMHO is that fact, that 
the Cut and Copy buttons in the tool-bar flash everytime I click 
somewhere to position the cursor. I just notice this now, because I 
don't have a tool-bar in my usual customization.

Is there a customization option that I've overlooked which prevents 
<down-mouse-1> (or is it <mouse-1>?) from setting the mark?
I've also looked over the "** Selection changes" part of etc/NEWS, but 
didn't find anything related to this particular effect.

Kind regards,
Tobias

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In GNU Emacs 24.0.97.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
  of 2012-05-25 on pen-bld-274apcl
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000
Configured using:
  `configure '--prefix=...''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: de_DE.utf8
   value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
   default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
   tooltip-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<up> <up> <up> <up> <right> <right> <right> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> C-SPC <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-w <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>

Recent messages:
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