GNU bug report logs - #24755
25.1; Selection continues with no mouse button pressed

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mats Palmgren <matspal <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:36:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #27 received at 24755 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Mats Palmgren <matspal <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24755 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#24755: 25.1; Selection continues with no mouse button pressed
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:27:03 -0400

> Fwiw, losing the selection in this situation isn't acceptable to me.
> I'll certainly stay on emacs < 25 until this is fixed to behave as
> it used to.

Could you explain a bit more of the background for your use-case.
E.g. how/why do you end up pressing `control` on the mouse-release?
E.g. Is it only/always `control` or are there other modifiers
involved sometimes?

As for a workaround, you should be able to get back the old behavior for
that specific case with

    (global-set-key [C-drag-mouse-1] 'mouse-set-region)


        Stefan
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