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

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Message #187 received at 6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.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: Re: bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:29:35 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:38:06 +0200
> Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, 6774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it
> 
> I think that for select-active-region to work the way you seem to want
> it to work (i.e. auto-select as soon as the region is active and
> non-empty), the "right hook" to use would be something like
> a redisplay-hook (i.e. an active region is selected if/when it gets
> displayed).  I would welcome such a hook, BTW, especially if it gets run
> *before* redisplay.

What exactly do you mean by "*before*" here?  Is it okay to do that in
redisplay_internal, as one of the first things, for example?  Note
that it's quite common for redisplay_internal to make a few quick
checks, decide that it has nothing to do, and return without
redisplaying anything.

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