From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change in Emacs highlighting behavior Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Organization: muc.de e.V. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264952456 7474 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2010 15:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:40:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 31 16:40:53 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 1Nbbur-00040g-N3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:40:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nbbup-0006b3-0h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:40:47 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 57 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.muc.de Original-X-Trace: colin2.muc.de 1264951112 45879 2001:608:1000::2 (31 Jan 2010 15:18:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:18:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-RELEASE (i386)) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176522 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:71593 Archived-At: mafaeq wrote: > Hi all, > I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 and since the upgrade, > emacs has been behaving differently. Specifically, when I left-click on > the scroll scrollbar, it sets a mark whenever the cursor moves, > causing the region betw where the cursor was and where it is to become > highlighted. This also happens if I left-click and drag along the > scrollbar. Sorry, can't help you here (I don't use scrollbars or the mouse), but ... > This is the version of emacs that I am using: > GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.0) > of 2009-09-27 on palmer, modified by Debian This is not a released version of Emacs. It is almost certainly a "pretest", i.e. a beta test version, released by the Emacs development team to those willing to test it. A released version would have a number like "23.1.1", where "23" is the major version, "1" the minor version, and "1" meaning it's the first time it's been compiled. > I've tried removing and re-installing emacs and I've deleted my .emacs > file and .emacs.d directory, just to make sure there was nothing there > causing this. You can start with "emacs -Q", which avoids loading your .emacs etc., to check that it's Emacs at fault and not your own files. > Oh also, when I start emacs I get the following message in the terminal > (emacs:3741): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times > I don't know if that is related, but it's also new since the upgrade to > 9.10 > Any help would be greatly appreciated! If you are a public spirited person, you should send a bug report to Ubuntu or even Debian. Though, best of luck finding a person willing to accept blame. Otherwise, I'd recommend you to download the latest stable, released version from this address: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.1.tar.bz2 (or one of the other files in the same directory (there are MS-Windows versions there too)), and unpack, build and install it. That version would work properly. With a modern DSL line and a modern PC, this whole process would take less than an hour -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).