The behavior wanted by the reporter of this "bug" only applies to an "active region". In Emacs-21.3, you never have such a beast unless you have explicitly enabled transient-mark-mode or one of its encompassing modes (pc-selection-mode, delete-selection-mode, cua-mode and probably others). The corresponding zmacs-region-mode (sp?) in XEmacs is on by default, in contrast.
Emacs-CVS (what will probably be released as 22.1 according to latest developments) is also available somewhere as a Debian package unless I am mistaken. It has an additional _temporary_ transient-mark-mode which can be enabled using C-u C-x C-x (to make the current region temporarily an "active" one) or C-u C-SPC (to place the mark of what is supposed to become an active region after moving point to the other side), or by using mouse-dragging. In my mind, it is the best-of-all-worlds combination, but then I might be partial. So unless the reporter has been enabling one of those modes including transient-mark-mode (which it would be nice to hear from him), the report is not a bug, but normal and intended behavior for Emacs-21.3. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
