From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to stop marking and (over)writing into the yank buffer at scroll bar use Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:36:01 -0800 Message-ID: <52B35442238C4CC8B9FA52C12DB5ADA9@us.oracle.com> References: <4B92D8C6.4070706@t-online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267960435 16856 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2010 11:13:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:13:55 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Nick Rudnick'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 07 04:08:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1No6qq-000311-7K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:08:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1No6qp-0003VS-EF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:08:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1No6qR-0003VD-SX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49583 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1No6qQ-0003V5-UB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1No6qP-00045e-Tn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:07:54 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet11.oracle.com ([148.87.113.123]:22446) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1No6qP-00045Y-P1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:07:53 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o2737pBY002626 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 7 Mar 2010 03:07:52 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt353.oracle.com (acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o2737naP000688; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 03:07:49 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt020.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 68142311267929355; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:35:55 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.160.53) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:35:55 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <4B92D8C6.4070706@t-online.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Thread-Index: Acq9mCb4VY2IGITzRz6m6sw3BdnF5wABp+dw X-Source-IP: acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4B931887.0008:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72379 Archived-At: > at use of the scroll bar, the text between becomes marked, leading to > the yank buffer being (over)written. > > At the same time, the text cursor jumps, apparenty to a position > appropriate to the mouse position at the cursor. > > I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.3) > of 2009-11-10 on crested, modified by Debian, and this > happens already > at an emptied ~/.emacs file. > > I would rather expect the text cursor to stay unchanged until > the mouse > touches the text area again -- is there a way to achieve a > such behaviour? Sounds like a bug. Try to report the specific steps you follow, starting with `emacs -Q'. Use `M-x report-emacs-bug' to report the problem.