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Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?

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From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se, 6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it
Subject: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:54:05 +0900

In article <jwvlj8diok6.fsf-monnier+emacs <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> So the C-f (or any other movement) would cause the selection of PRIMARY?

When transient-mark-mode is on (including temporary one), I
think yes.

> That would have to be performed in some kind of post-command-hook, which
> is undesirable.

We can add a proper code to set_point_both like this code in
init_iterator (xdisp.c).

  /* Non-zero if we should highlight the region.  */
  highlight_region_p
    = (!NILP (Vtransient_mark_mode)
       && !NILP (current_buffer->mark_active)
       && XMARKER (current_buffer->mark)->buffer != 0);

  /* Set IT->region_beg_charpos and IT->region_end_charpos to the
     start and end of a visible region in window IT->w.  Set both to
     -1 to indicate no region.  */
  if (highlight_region_p
      /* Maybe highlight only in selected window.  */
      && (/* Either show region everywhere.  */
[...]

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Kenichi Handa
handa <at> m17n.org

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