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

From: Tobias Bading <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 18:44:56 +0200

> The old mouse dragging code had a special behavior to pop the mark if
> you did not move the mouse much after the down event, to avoid setting
> the mark (this did not work reliably; if you move the mouse a little bit
> between the down and up events, the mark gets set anyway).

HURRAY, I'm not losing my mind! Thank you, Chong! A slight mouse movement between the mouse down and up events causing the mark to be set in Emacs 23 finally explains why sometimes I was unable to kill or copy a region with C-SPC at point, mouse click there and then C-w or M-w. That is quite a bad bug in Emacs 23 then to be honest.

Tobias