Lisp error: (mark-inactive)

Lisp error: (mark-inactive)

[Sam Steingold]

GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195)
 of 2004-06-27 on WINSTEINGOLDLAP
--with-msvc (12.00)

C-home C-w ==>
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (mark-inactive)
  call-interactively(kill-region)

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Re: Lisp error: (mark-inactive)

[Richard Stallman]

    I don't _always_ get it either, but I do get it in fresh buffers:

    C-x b asdf RET C-home C-w ==> Lisp error: (mark-inactive)

If Transient Mark mode is enabled, this is correct behavior.
beginning-of-buffer sets the mark but does not activate it.

Re: Lisp error: (mark-inactive)

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     I don't _always_ get it either, but I do get it in fresh buffers:
> 
>     C-x b asdf RET C-home C-w ==> Lisp error: (mark-inactive)
> 
> If Transient Mark mode is enabled, this is correct behavior.
> beginning-of-buffer sets the mark but does not activate it.

But transient mark mode was not enabled here.  I have gotten this
infrequently as well (and I don't use transient-mark-mode at all),
but don't remember the circumstances, and whether this has happened
recently.

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Re: Lisp error: (mark-inactive)

[Sam Steingold]

> * Richard Stallman <ezf@tah.bet> [2004-07-19 05:07:35 -0400]:
>
>     I don't _always_ get it either, but I do get it in fresh buffers:
>
>     C-x b asdf RET C-home C-w ==> Lisp error: (mark-inactive)
>
> If Transient Mark mode is enabled, this is correct behavior.
> beginning-of-buffer sets the mark but does not activate it.

transient-mark-mode is disabled.

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Re: Lisp error: (mark-inactive)

[Richard Stallman]

      I have gotten this
    infrequently as well (and I don't use transient-mark-mode at all),
    but don't remember the circumstances, and whether this has happened
    recently.

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    David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum



It did not fail for me when I tested it without Transient-Mark mode.
If it ever does fail for you, could you please try to debug it?