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25.0.95; mouse-drag-region regression

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Message #35 received at 24030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#24030: 25.0.95; mouse-drag-region regression
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 11:33:29 -0600

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Cc: agrambot <at> gmail.com,  24030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 17:16:37 -0400
>> 
>> > that creates a buffer-local binding for it.  That is why select-window
>> > gives deactivate-mark a non-nil value: select-window makes the
>> > window's buffer the current one, which assigns buffer-local values to
>> > all of it variables, including deactivate-mark.  Then this
>> > buffer-local value is being examined by mouse-drag-region.
>> 
>> Indeed, this is a problem here because of have a "stale" setting of
>> deactivate-mark.
>> 
>> Maybe something like the patch below will do?
>
> It didn't solve the problem here.  Did it work for you?

FWIW both of the patches worked for me.

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