Subject: bug#11191: C-x C-x does not activate the selection anymore with cua-selection-mode

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:18:17 +0800

Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]> writes:

[recipe edited]

> emacs -Q
> M-x cua-selection-mode RET
> M-<
> C-SPC C-f C-f C-f C-g
> C-x C-x
>
> now the selection should be active, but it is not.
> This worked in emacs-23.3, so this is a regression.

Looks like this change was made deliberately:

  revno: 102844
  committer: Kim F. Storm <[email-masked]>
  branch nick: trunk
  timestamp: Fri 2011-01-14 16:06:17 +0100
  message:
  * emulation/cua-base.el (cua--init-keymaps):
  Remap exchange-point-and-mark in cua-global-keymap.

The docstring of `cua-exchange-point-and-mark' says it does not activate
the mark.

Kim, could you confirm that this was the intention?