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"(emacs) Mark" should contrast to "selecting" text in other editors

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Message #55 received at 50950 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50950 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: Re: bug#50950: "(emacs) Mark" should contrast to "selecting" text in
 other editors
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 19:44:08 +0200

> Depends on how you scroll, I guess.

Using the mouse wheel, the mouse on the scroll bar or the <prior>,
<next>, <home> or <end> keys.  I guess these are the most common ones
for people trying to find out why Emacs does not behave like other
editors or applications like Firefox.

> Applications where "point" stays
> put when it goes out of the viewport need to be scrolled by moving
> "point".
>
> But if you have in mind the automatic movement of point when the
> window is scrolled, then yes, it's quite unique to Emacs, but it isn't
> about scrolling, it's about the fact that any movement of point
> modifies the region.

It's merely about the fact that "scrolling" as sketched above may move
point and consequently alter or simply discard the "selected text".

martin

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