Re: Pretest note

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 12/03/12 03:13, Chong Yidong wrote:

> So if you know of a non-regression bug which you think really needs to
> be fixed before 24.1, please point it out now.


Well, perhaps an ill-timed can of worms, but the selections area still 
has some irritating known problems AFAICS.  I haven't personally had 
much time to look into them for the past, uh, year.

I think the two of most concern for usability are probably "selection 
resurrection" (#8996) and "surprising scrolled selection" (#9623), 
though YMMV.  Both are still present in the 24.0.94 pretest (tested just 
now), but #9623 might be considered to count as a regression, with the 
appropriate squinting.

#8996 probably doesn't though - obviously select-active-regions didn't 
default to on in 23, but if you do turn it on the same behaviour is 
observed, so not a regression, same bug in 23 and 24.

#8996 has a working patch, but it is ugly and probably not trunkworthy,
there has to be a neater way to do it...