From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Selection changes Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:13:39 -0400 Message-ID: <87iq4eoido.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87ocea2ax1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C40FCEC.9030404@harpegolden.net> <87pqym2a4r.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4C411552.40003@harpegolden.net> <87eif2n7d7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C412888.9080805@harpegolden.net> <8739vivk2y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279340032 23396 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2010 04:13:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 17 06:13:51 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 1OZymc-0000ZA-KY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:13:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZymb-0007O9-Sx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:13:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40004 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZymV-0007MV-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:13:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZymU-0000zM-0k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:13:42 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po18.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.74]:38927) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZymS-0000z6-8R; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:13:40 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014221.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.221]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po18.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o6H4DdEC031931 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:13:39 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CBF6BC013; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:13:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <8739vivk2y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:55:01 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:127483 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > David De La Harpe Golden writes: > >> The bad "(not (eq (region-beginning) (region-end)))" check is still >> present in deactivate-mark (~simple.el line 3690) and should just be >> removed, I did [try to] explain the problem with it in a previous >> mail, that's a further source of some poor behaviour (perhaps >> counterintuitively, but that's lazy stuff for you) that might be >> related to some of your points below. > > Let's come up with a proper fix, first. To be precise, the check is necessary because otherwise mouse-1 (which deactivates the mark) destroys the primary selection.