From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `insert' inside `with-current-buffer' deactivating the mark?
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:21:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv38wbc9l9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txoryzwm.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:59:05 +0100")
> Thanks. Yes, I know `deactivate-mark' - but why is it necessary here?
> Why does changing another buffer deactivate the mark in the current
> buffer?
Because deactivate-mark is a global variable. Note also that the mark is
not deactivated in some cases where it "should":
M-: (progn (insert "a") (set-buffer (other-buffer))) RET
IOW the auto-deactivation is just a coarse heuristic, which only covers
most cases, but not all.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-04 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-04 14:19 `insert' inside `with-current-buffer' deactivating the mark? Michael Heerdegen
2013-03-04 14:48 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-03-04 14:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-03-04 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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