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bug#10056: 24.0.91; `copy-to-register' does not deactivate the mark
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Dani Moncayo |
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bug#10056: 24.0.91; `copy-to-register' does not deactivate the mark |
Date: |
Sun, 9 Sep 2012 22:20:12 +0200 |
> The way mark deactivation works is that the mark gets deactivated after
> any command that modified the buffer (that's the basic heuristic used
> to avoid having to change umpteen commands to explicitly deactivate-mark).
I think that the general principle for deactivating the mark is not
(and should not be) "after any command that modified the buffer", but
"after any command that _used_ the active region (for any purpose)".
For example, to copy some text on the kill ring, you select the text
and do C-w. After that, the mark is deactivated. The C-w command
doesn't modified the buffer, but _used_ the active region. Thus,
after the operation on the active region is done, the mark must be
deactivated. IMO, that is what the user wants/expects/needs, and
Emacs not always follows this principle. Hence this bug report.
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Dani Moncayo