GNU bug report logs - #29173
25.3; pulse-momentary-highlight-region is not visible when region is active

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Yury Bulka <setthemfree <at> privacyrequired.com>

Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 18:09:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 25.3

Fixed in version 27.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Yury Bulka <setthemfree <at> privacyrequired.com>
Cc: 29173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29173: 25.3; pulse-momentary-highlight-region is not visible when region is active
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:42:14 +0200

Yury Bulka <setthemfree <at> privacyrequired.com> writes:

> To reproduce:
> 1) Select some region in a buffer
> 2) eval:
>    (pulse-momentary-highlight-region
>      (region-beginning)
>      (region-end))
> 3) No visual feedback is appearing
>
> By contrast, evaluating something like:
>    (pulse-momentary-highlight-region (- (point) 5) (point))
> results in the area around point highlighted as expected.

This has now been fixed in Emacs 27 by giving the overlay used to pulse
a higher priority than the default.

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