bug#18090: 24.4.50; `delete-selection-helper' logic changed for non-mouse region?

[Drew Adams]

ping

Could someone else please take a look at this?
Thx.

> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 11:03 AM


> Prior to Emacs 23, the delsel.el code that handles a yank had this code:
> 
> ;; Before a yank command, make sure we don't yank the
> ;; head of the kill-ring that really comes from the
> ;; currently active region we are going to delete.
> ;; That would make yank a no-op.
> (when (and (string= (buffer-substring-no-properties (point) (mark))
>                     (car kill-ring)))
>   (current-kill 1))
> 
> That code dates from the creation of delsel.el.  In Emacs 23, these
> two sexps were appended to the `and' conditions, which completely
> changes the meaning/behavior (though the comment was not modified):
> 
>  (fboundp 'mouse-region-match)
>  (mouse-region-match)
> 
> This changed the behavior so that the yanking point is now rotated only
> when the mouse was used to set the region.  This makes no sense to me,
> but perhaps I am missing something.  Does this make sense to you?
> If it does make sense, then at least the comment should be updated to
> reflect the current behavior.
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> BTW, I also think it would be better to use `while' instead of `when'
> in the code:
> 
> (let ((tail  kill-ring))
>   (while (and tail  (string= (buffer-substring-no-properties (point)
> (mark))
>                              (car tail))
>               (fboundp 'mouse-region-match) ; ????
>               (mouse-region-match)) ; ????
>     (current-kill 1)
>     (setq tail  (cdr tail))))
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2014-06-28 on ODIEONE
> Bzr revision: 117431 rgm@gnu.org-20140628015517-eku6hj8mpgcvfnso
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
> Configured using:
>  `configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/snapshot/trunk
>  --enable-checking=yes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3'
>  LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib 'CPPFLAGS=-DGC_MCHECK=1
>  -Ic:/Devel/emacs/include''
> 
> 
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