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25.3.50; Deactivate mark with Ctrl-g mess up the primary-selection

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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 28631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#28631: 25.3.50; Deactivate mark with Ctrl-g mess up the primary-selection
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:54:41 +0900 (JST)

On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Noam Postavsky wrote:

> I think I would rather put it with the next condition:
>
> --- i/lisp/simple.el
> +++ w/lisp/simple.el
> @@ -5336,7 +5336,9 @@ deactivate-mark
> 	    ;; deactivation should not clobber it (Bug#11772).
> 	    ((and (/= (region-beginning) (region-end))
> 		  (or (gui-backend-selection-owner-p 'PRIMARY)
> -		      (null (gui-backend-selection-exists-p 'PRIMARY))))
> +                      (null (gui-backend-selection-exists-p 'PRIMARY)))
> +                  ;; `winner-undo' shouldn't update the selection (Bug#28631).
> +                  (not (eq this-command 'winner-undo)))
> 	     (gui-set-selection 'PRIMARY
>                                 (funcall region-extract-function nil)))))
>     (when mark-active (force-mode-line-update)) ;Refresh toolbar (bug#16382).
>
> Either way, I think it's okay to push emacs-26, but wait a bit in case
> someone else thinks otherwise.
OK.
Thank you very much.

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