Re: 23.0.60; format-time-string, post-command-hook and mark

[Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:24:32 +0900 Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> wrote:

> In article <yoijfxvvbzjw.fsf@remote2.student.chalmers.se>, bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:
>
>> Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> writes:
>> > 1. Start Emacs with these arguments:
>> >       -Q --eval "(add-hook 'post-command-hook (lambda () (format-time-string \"%Y\")))"
>> >
>> > 2. Load a file into a buffer or type some text in a buffer.
>> >
>> > 3. If you select a region of the buffer with the mouse and try to delete
>> > the region with C-w, Emacs beeps and says "The mark is not active now"
>> > and the region is not deleted.
>
>> There used to be code in coding.c to save and restore Vdeactivate_mark.
>> In 23.0.60 it doesn't refer to Vdeactivate_mark at all.  Handa-san?
>
> It seems that the change of handling Vdeactivate_mark in
> codinc.c was lost while synchronizing emacs-unicode-2 with
> the trunk.
>
> I've just installed a fix.

I confirm the problem I reported is fixed; thanks to Johan Bockgård for
finding the source of the problem and to Kenichi Handa for fixing it.

Steve Berman