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25.1; Selection continues with no mouse button pressed

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 24755 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, matspal <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#24755: 25.1; Selection continues with no mouse button pressed
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:52:47 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Mats Palmgren <matspal <at> gmail.com>,  24755-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:29:55 -0400
> 
> > Stefan, could you please fix this?  It seems to be due to changes in
> > how mouse-drag-track handles mouse events: in Emacs 24.5, the code
> > handled mouse clicks as well, whereas now it doesn't seem to.  So
> > releasing the mouse button while Ctrl or Shift is pressed signals an
> > error now, instead of finishing the drag event.
> 
> > The fix should go to the emacs-25 branch.
> 
> I pushed the patch below to emacs-25, which should fix it.

Thanks.  It fixes the original bug, but the resulting behavior is not
identical to Emacs 24.5, because once you release mouse-1, the
selected text loses its highlight.  In Emacs 24.5, the highlight would
stay.

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