Subject: Re: 23.1; flashing when overlapping face and mouse-face properties

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:48:08 +0200

"Drew Adams" <[email-masked]> writes:

> In *scratch*, type this:
> (accessible-keymaps (current-global-map))
>
> Put point somewhere after the sexp and hit `C-u C-x C-e'.
>
> The result sexp inserted is large, and it has a mouse-face property
> over it all. Double-click a left paren somewhere inside the sexp, to
> select a sublist.
>
> The display flashes spasmodically. Very annoying. And you can hardly
> see the region highlight at all.

Yes, that's annoying.  Perhaps `C-u C-x C-e' shouldn't put the
mouse-face property on the entire list, but only on the bits it's
interesting to actually click?

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