GNU bug report logs - #15513
Isearch should clear shift-selected region

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 20:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.2

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 15513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 15513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cyd <at> gnu.org, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#15513: Isearch should clear shift-selected region
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 07:48:04 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Actually, any highlighted region is a transient region.  Motion commands
> deactivate the current selection only in the case where the selection
> was made with shifted motion commands.
>
> So C-s should only deactivate the region if it has been activated by
> shifted motion commands.

I think that makes sense -- but Emacs has worked this way for a long
time now, and I can't recall seeing many complaints about the behaviour
of `C-S-right C-s', so changing the behaviour may annoy people.

Anybody got an opinion here?

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