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

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Message #35 received at 56662 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 56662 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#56662: 29.0.50; Funny region highlights when
 highlight-nonselected-windows is t
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:39:43 +0300

> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 56662 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:02:32 +0530
> 
> >> I can think of one way this could potentially work is by checking if the
> >> mark was made when window was active so making the mark "window-aware"?
> >> I.e., if two windows A and B show the same buffer and the user typed
> >> C-SPC when in window A, then the region would not show up in window B.
> >> Does this make sense?
> >
> > So what happens if the user then types "C-x o" to switch to B?
> 
> Ideally, nothing.  Only the active window changes but the region
> highlighting before and after should be the same.

But that's a bug: region highlighting should definitely work in a
selected window.

> Here's another question: what about delete-selection-mode when the
> active window is B?

What about it?

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