Subject: Re: bug#12389: 24.2.50; mark, transient-mark-mode and registers

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:17:32 -0400

> Item-1
> ======
> My upvotes for de-activating mark after `prepend-to-register' and
> `append-to-register.

Fine by me.

> Item-2
> ======
> 1. Enable transient-mark-mode
> 2. C-SPC
> 3. <down> <down>
> 4. C-g
> 5. C-u C-x r s a

That's normal: the same happens with C-w instead of C-u C-x r s a.

> Now as a transient mark user, I find disappearance of a non-highlighted
> text in (5) surprising.  Comments?

What did you expect to happen?  That the text is copied but not deleted?
Or that neither happens and you get an error.
If you want an error, you can set mark-even-if-inactive to nil.

        Stefan