Re: select-active-regions, Emacs not X

[Chong Yidong]

Andreas Röhler <address@hidden> writes:

> Doesn't meet my observations.
>
> In the original case cursor motion followed an exchange-point-and-mark
> over a string found.  Afterwards, moving the cursor, any active region
> went into the clipboard. Next yank got it from there.  Whilst the
> string found and copied has been expected, but was not returned.
>
> Ie got some arbitrary content resp. to the move away from the match-point.

This description is too vague.  Could you please provide a precise,
step-by-step recipe, starting from `emacs -Q'?

> The big difference IMHO is the cursor-motion-region-setting in emacs.
> In X, regions are expressingly marked, while in Emacs it just the
> difference beween point and any previously set mark.

select-active-regions only takes effect when Transient Mark mode is
enabled, which means the region is explicitly marked.  Again, if this is
not what you see, please provide a step-by-step recipe, starting from
`emacs -Q', to demonstrate the problem.