Subject: bug#8400: 24.0.50; Strange selection behavior in Gnus Article buffer

From: Stephen Berman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:48:56 +0200

On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:44:13 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 31/03/11 23:05, Stephen Berman wrote:
>> 1. emacs -Q
>> 2. Carry out the steps in NEWS to return to the pre-24 selection behavior:
>>     Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
>>     Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t.
>>     Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.
>
> Please try:
>
> (setq select-active-regions nil
>       mouse-drag-copy-region t
>       x-select-enable-primary t
>       x-select-enable-clipboard nil)
> (global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-at-click)
>
> I'm not saying there isn't a real issue, what you describe does sound a bit
> similar to a problem that occasionally occurred with the new settings (without
> any changes to them) a while back, but please try with the above settings,
> which are AFAIK still* (whatever the NEWS file may currently say) the actual
> current recipe to restore the old behaviour (except on windows) - if you only
> did precisely what you said in your 2., then AFAIK you were running with a
> doom-laden mix of old and new settings.

You're right.  So this is a -- rather insidious -- NEWS bug; fix below.
Thanks for setting me straight.

Steve Berman

*** /data/steve/bzr/emacs/trunk/etc/NEWS	2011-03-30 10:33:51.000000000 +0200
--- /data/steve/bzr/emacs/quickfixes/etc/NEWS	2011-04-01 10:38:09.000000000 +0200
***************
*** 332,337 ****
--- 332,338 ----
  
  *** To return to the previous behavior, do the following:
  
+ **** Change `select-active-regions' to nil.
  **** Change `mouse-drag-copy-region' to t.
  **** Change `x-select-enable-primary' to t (on X only).
  **** Change `x-select-enable-clipboard' to nil.