Subject: RE: bug#11588: 24.0.97; Left mouse click setting the mark every time?!??

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 08:45:29 -0700

> > mouse-1 does not set the mark, but it does deactivate the 
> > mark if the mark was active.
> 
> Umm... emacs -Q:
> C-h v mark-ring RET shows that mark-ring is initially nil.
> Now click <n> times with the left mouse button somewhere in 
> the *scratch* buffer. Now mark-ring contains <n-1> elements.
> 
> Am I missing or misinterpreting something here?

No, you are correct.  C-h k, then click mouse-1.  You'll see that `down-mouse-1'
is bound to `mouse-drag-region', but `mouse-1' is bound to `mouse-set-point',
which sets point to the click position.

> C-SPC, left mouse click somewhere, then C-w doesn't kill 
> anything. In Emacs 23, it did.

You are correct about that also.