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24.0.91; `copy-to-register' does not deactivate the mark

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Message #50 received at 10056 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, 10056 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 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.

-- 
Dani Moncayo

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