GNU bug report logs - #60841
30.0.50; kill-ring-save pauses despite region being highlighted

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:39:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
Cc: gregory <at> heytings.org, 60841 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#60841: 30.0.50; kill-ring-save pauses despite region being highlighted
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 17:40:56 +0200

> From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: gregory <at> heytings.org,  60841 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 15:54:14 +0100
> 
> OK, two tentative patches attached, because I don't know which makes for
> the better UX:
> 
>     ▼ Copy Region Inhibit Blink:
>     Choice:
>     (*) region-stands-out-p
>             Whether the region can be distinguished visually. More
>     ( ) always
>             Always inhibit: never blink point and mark.
>     ( ) ignore
>             Never inhibit: always blink point and mark.
>     ( ) Other predicate function.: ignore
>         State : STANDARD.
>        Whether we should refrain from blinking the cursor after a copy. ▼
>        When this condition holds, ‘kill-ring-save’ will not blink the
>        cursor between point and mark to denote the copied region.
>     Groups: Killing
> 
>                                  ⁂ VS ⁂
> 
>     ▼ Copy Region Blink Predicate:
>     Choice:
>     (*) region-indistinguishable-p
>             Whether the current region is not denoted visually. ▼
>         This holds when the region is inactive, or when the ‘region’ face
>         cannot be distinguished from the ‘default’ face.
>     ( ) always
>             Always blink point and mark.
>     ( ) ignore
>             Never blink point and mark.
>     ( ) Other predicate function.: ignore
>         State : STANDARD.
>        Whether the cursor must be blinked after a copy. ▼
>        When this condition holds, and the copied region fits in the
>        current window, ‘kill-ring-save’ will blink the cursor between
>        point and mark for ‘copy-region-blink-delay’ seconds.
>     Groups: Killing

I prefer the second one, since inhibit-SOMETHING is slightly harder to
grasp, due to the negation.

The second paragraph of the NEWS entry shouldn't be there: it tells
that we fixed a bug.
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 105 days ago.

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