From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raimund Steger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs highlighted region expanding with scrollbar movement Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:12:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5308B678.7000500@easy-emacs.de> <83r46v2o5f.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393099987 19767 80.91.229.3 (22 Feb 2014 20:13:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:13:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 22 21:13:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WHIwl-0006Tu-4X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:13:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50687 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHIwk-0004ar-MM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:13:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHIwW-0004aS-8E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:13:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHIwR-0003ly-EU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:13:00 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHIwR-0003ls-7s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:12:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WHIwQ-0006F3-BX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:12:54 +0100 Original-Received: from bsd1.hq.steg0.eu ([82.139.199.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:12:54 +0100 Original-Received: from rs by bsd1.hq.steg0.eu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:12:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd1.hq.steg0.eu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS i86pc; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 SeaMonkey/2.24 In-Reply-To: <83r46v2o5f.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96174 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:38:48 +0100 From: Andreas Röhler >> >> >> Am 22.02.2014 12:46, schrieb Raimund Steger: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've only recently upgraded to Emacs 24 (GNU Emacs 24.3.1 >>> (i386-pc-solaris2.11, Motif Version 2.1.0)). Before, I used Emacs >>> 22 for the most part, but also Emacs 23 (briefly) in some >>> environments. >>> >>> I noticed that apparently starting with Emacs 23, the highlighted >>> region behaves differently when dragging the scrollbar handle >>> with the mouse. As the highlighted region moves out of the >>> visible area of the window, the highlighting is suddenly expanded >>> to follow the point. This means it is not possible anymore to >>> leave something highlighted and pan around in the file at the >>> same time. >>> >>> I have transient-mark-mode turned off, but changing its value >>> does not change the described behavior. Also, it is reproducible >>> with 'emacs -Q' and seems to happen for GTK builds as well. >>> [...] >> >> May confirm this behavior with Emacs 24.3.50.1. of 2013-07-06 > > That's true, but I also see the same behavior in Emacs 22.1, so I'm > not sure what change in behavior is being reported here. I don't > think this changed at all, and couldn't (see below). To clarify what change I'm seeing: It is true that the point has always moved along to stay in the visible area of the window. However, somehow the highlighted area (and X selection) hasn't, at least not in my old Emacs 22 here (GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-pc-solaris2.10, Motif Version 2.1.0)). -Raimund -- Worringer Str 31 Duesseldorf 40211 DE home: +49-179-2981632 icq 16845346 work: