GNU bug report logs - #56662
29.0.50; Funny region highlights when highlight-nonselected-windows is t

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Message #47 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 19:34:19 +0300

> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 56662 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:43:28 +0530
> 
> [வியாழன் ஜூலை 21, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> > But that's a bug: region highlighting should definitely work in a
> >> > selected window.
> >>
> >> It won't be a bug if the region is considered window-local.
> >
> > That's what the default already does, doesn't it?
> >
> 
> No?  If I deactivate the mark in window A, it deactivates the mark in
> window B too.

If you deactivate the mark, there's no region, so I'm not sure why
you want to see highlighting in that case.

Are we talking about the Emacs region highlighting, or are we talking
about some other highlighting?  As the manual explains, the Emacs
selection highlighting is different from other applications in several
important ways.

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