GNU bug report logs - #10056
24.0.91; `copy-to-register' does not deactivate the mark

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:08:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.91

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #53 received at 10056 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, 10056 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#10056: 24.0.91;
	`copy-to-register' does not deactivate the mark
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:42:45 +0200

Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> 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)".

... unless it's immediately useful to reuse the active region?

But FWIW I agree in general. 

-- 
 Bastien
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