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24.0.50; mouse highlighting vanishes upon unsplitting window

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: cyd <at> gnu.org, 7464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7464: 24.0.50;
	mouse highlighting vanishes upon unsplitting window
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:55:37 +0200

> Date: 21 Mar 2012 23:41:36 +0100
> From: "Stephen Berman" <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
> Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>, 7464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >>>> I can reproduce it on Windows in Emacs 23.2.90 and also in stock Emacs
> >>>> 23.2 and Emacs 23.1.  I don't have Emacs 23.1.90 anymore to test.
> >>
> >> I can't reproduce this with latest trunk (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+
> >> Version 3.2.0).  Maybe this has been fixed since the bug report?  Eli,
> >> could you check again, since you could reproduce it before?
> >
> > I just updated from the trunk and rebuilt (GNU Emacs 24.0.94.6
> > (i686-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.7) of 2012-03-21 on escher), and
> > I can still reproduce the bug.
> 
> But I can't reproduce it on the same machine with GNU Emacs 23.3.1
> (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.7) of 2011-10-30 on build34.

Just now, I cannot reproduce it in any version, including the latest
trunk.  As you see above, I could at least at some point reproduce it
in the entire Emacs 23.x series.

So I submit that what you see is just the sign of the elusiveness of
this bug.  It exists since about forever.

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