GNU bug report logs - #57147
27.2; Problem with kill-new

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 57148

Found in version 27.2

Done: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #40 received at 57147 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 57148 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 57147 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> gmail.com>, alain.cochard <at> unistra.fr
Subject: Re: bug#57147: bug#57148: 27.2; Problem with kill-new
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:32:12 +0200

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

>> Can this behaviour be disabled then?
>
> Sure, we could add a flag that tells deactivate-mark not to save the
> region.  But others might object, so I'd rather wait a while before
> doing that.

The variable is currently:

---
deactivate-mark is a variable defined in src/keyboard.c.

[...]

If an editing command sets this to t, deactivate the mark afterward.
---

So adding a new value like `no-save' should be safe.
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 279 days ago.

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