Re: Mark handling (Was: Changes to emacs/lisp/progmodes/grep.el)

[Daniel Pfeiffer]

Saluton,

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> skribis:

>     You were nevertheless right: I found out that dragging the mouse to mark
>     something sets transient-mark-mode to 'identity behind my back.  Even
>     with emacs -q.
> 
> This is a feature.  When the user drags a region, it is highlighted
> for the next command, and various commands will operate on that region.
> 
> Could you explain why this strikes you as a bug?  What is the precise
> sequence of inputs that you use, and what behavior do you see?

I don't care about this itself.  The bug is that after this, the mark is not
active.  If I do (for example)  drag click M->  it says "Mark set".  But then 
M-w  complains "The mark is not active now".

This is a fairly recent change, as I do this kind of thing quite often and
never had this error message before.

coralament / best Grötens / liebe Grüße / best regards / elkorajn salutojn
Daniel Pfeiffer

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