David De La Harpe Golden<david@harpegolden.net> writes:
Well, select-active-regions was introduced (though not made default)
rather before the ^-type shift-selection appeared AFAIK. From my
perspective, it would be breaking something that was largely working
as initially intended and (unlike with the general defaults change)
not giving the option of having it work the way it did* anymore (well,
apart from patching it in locally, I'm hardly incapable of doing
that).
I've checked in some changes that should (fingers crossed) fix the
"empty selection" problem. This also eliminates the use of
x-set-selection to buffer variables, as you suggested. Now, Emacs
copies strings out explicitly in the command loop and in
`deactivate-mark'.
I added a new value to `select-active-regions', `lazy' (the default),
which means to set the selection only when used, as described in an
earlier email. Any other non-nil value gives something similar to the
original behavior of select-active-regions.