[Cc to the Debian bug]
On 2014-12-30 12:45:12 +0200, Riku Saikkonen wrote:
> I tried to trace where the bug occurs, and got as far as this:
>
> mouse-drag-track contains the lines
>
> ;; Otherwise, run binding of terminating up-event.
> (deactivate-mark)
> (if do-multi-click
> (goto-char start-point)
> (unless moved-off-start
> (pop-mark)))
>
> (lines 858-863 of mouse.el in Emacs 24.4.1)
[...]
How about locally setting select-active-regions to nil for
(deactivate-mark)? See attached patch, which seems to work
for me, though I don't know all the consequences.
It is inspired from the patch suggested at
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6872#8
and the one that was really applied as
1c409d0b963ebdb1f48b90ddce85c56d989bee5f.
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diff --git a/lisp/mouse.el b/lisp/mouse.el
index e267418..2afe313 100644
--- a/lisp/mouse.el
+++ b/lisp/mouse.el
@@ -856,7 +856,8 @@ DO-MOUSE-DRAG-REGION-POST-PROCESS should only be used by
(copy-region-as-kill (mark) (point)))))
;; Otherwise, run binding of terminating up-event.
- (deactivate-mark)
+ (let (select-active-regions)
+ (deactivate-mark))
(if do-multi-click
(goto-char start-point)
(unless moved-off-start
