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bug#8996: Set PRIMARY from last selection, not last selected window
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David De La Harpe Golden |
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bug#8996: Set PRIMARY from last selection, not last selected window |
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Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:54:11 +0100 |
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On 05/07/11 04:26, Stefan Monnier wrote:
The window manager is ctwm rather than Metacity, in case it matters.
I can replicate this (not just with ctwm)
The issue I was thinking of is still present too, and is likely
closely related / really the same thing.
emacs -Q
C-x 2
point is at end of scratch buffer in the window you're in.
Now select word "create" with M-SPC and arrow keys, mark at start of
word, point at end of word.
C-x o
create to the end of buffer is highlighted in current window.*
select word "visit" in window you're now in with M-SPC and arrow keys,
mark at start of word, point at end of word.
C-x o
Note " a file, " is highlighted.*
hit mouse-2 on the end of the word "enter" in current window.
++ " a file, " is inserted, whereas user expectation is probably
"visit", as the most recently actively selected by the user.
If we made it insert "visit", and (unlikely) the user did actually want
" a file, ", they could hit C-x C-x [C-x C-x], say, to make that region
the last actively selected by the user.
* Notionally pretty separate issue, best considered a separate bug or
wishlist item: Point position is saved/restored on a per-window basis by
select-window, but the mark position (and active status) is not. IMO
both point and mark (and active status) could do with being saved
per-window and restored on window switches. That would be a noticeable
behavioural change if done by default (could be optional though), and is
presumably not a runner even as an option right at this very moment
(feature freeze). And of course, an ability to set the mark in one
window open on a large buffer and the point in another window open onto
a different place in the same large buffer is sortof a feature (though
it's also possible to imagine both switch-window and, uh,
switch-window-keeping-current-mark-position being available on different
bindings).
- bug#8996: Set PRIMARY from last selection, not last selected window, Stefan Monnier, 2011/07/04
- bug#8996: Set PRIMARY from last selection, not last selected window, David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/07/04
- bug#8996: Set PRIMARY from last selection, not last selected window, Chong Yidong, 2011/07/04
- bug#8996: Set PRIMARY from last selection, not last selected window, Stefan Monnier, 2011/07/04
- bug#8996: Set PRIMARY from last selection, not last selected window, David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/07/05
- bug#8996: Set PRIMARY from last selection, not last selected window,
David De La Harpe Golden <=
- bug#8996: Set PRIMARY from last selection, not last selected window, David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/07/10