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Message from discussion bug#12389: 24.2.50; mark, transient-mark-mode and registers
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Jambunathan K  
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 More options Oct 3 2012, 10:30 am
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
From: Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:01:04 +0530
Local: Wed, Oct 3 2012 10:31 am
Subject: bug#12389: 24.2.50; mark, transient-mark-mode and registers
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Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Item-1
>> ======
>> My upvotes for de-activating mark after `prepend-to-register' and
>> `append-to-register.

> Fine by me.

I am attaching a patch.

Please leave the bug open.  I will continue my discussion on Item-2
sometime later.

>> Item-2
>> ======
>> 1. Enable transient-mark-mode
>> 2. C-SPC
>> 3. <down> <down>
>> 4. C-g
>> 5. C-u C-x r s a

> That's normal: the same happens with C-w instead of C-u C-x r s a.

>> Now as a transient mark user, I find disappearance of a non-highlighted
>> text in (5) surprising.  Comments?

> What did you expect to happen?  That the text is copied but not deleted?
> Or that neither happens and you get an error.
> If you want an error, you can set mark-even-if-inactive to nil.

>         Stefan

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