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29.0.50; Funny region highlights when highlight-nonselected-windows is t

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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 56662 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56662: 29.0.50; Funny region highlights when highlight-nonselected-windows is t
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:13:16 +0530

[புதன் ஜூலை 20, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:05:11 +0530
>> 
>>     1. emacs -Q
>>     2. Visit a longish file.
>>     3. C-x 3 and scroll up in any of the window.
>>     4. M-: (setq highlight-nonselected-windows t) RET.
>>     5. Create an active region and compare the highlighting.
>
> What is wrong with this behavior?  In each window the region between
> the mark and point is highlighted, as you requested by turning on that
> option.
>
> What am I missing?

Since the point is local to the window, it felt natural that the region
would be too.  But since the region simply highlights the text between
the point and the mark, the current behaviour is not strange indeed.  I
guess there's nothing to do here and this bug can be closed?

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