Bug 543046

Summary: Using scroll bar in emacs highlights/selects text
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Roderick Johnstone <rmj>
Component: emacsAssignee: Daniel Novotny <dnovotny>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: debarshir, dnovotny, jonathan.underwood
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Fixed In Version: emacs-23.1-13.fc11 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Roderick Johnstone 2009-12-01 15:39:06 UTC 
Description of problem:
Text is selected when scrolling with the scroll bar in emacs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
emacs-23.1-10.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run emacs on a text file
2. scroll down using scroll bar on left
3. 
  
Actual results:
When letting go of scroll bar text is highlighted down to current position. Mark set is reported in the messages buffer.

Expected results:
Nothing is highlighted and no mark is set.

Additional info:
Happens under kde and gnome
Comment 1 Roderick Johnstone 2009-12-02 12:10:02 UTC 
Apparently this is a known emacs bug, fixed in cvs.

See: http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=4870

From that report, you can set set GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS to 1 as a workaround.
Comment 2 Daniel Novotny 2009-12-02 16:42:14 UTC 
Created attachment 375482 [details]
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hello Roderick, thanks for pointing out the upstream bug report. The fix can be backported from the CVS version.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-12-02 17:20:35 UTC 
emacs-23.1-13.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/emacs-23.1-13.fc12
Comment 4 Roderick Johnstone 2009-12-02 17:35:02 UTC 
Many thanks
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-12-05 00:03:10 UTC 
emacs-23.1-14.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-12-05 00:03:40 UTC 
emacs-23.1-13.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-03-30 23:17:46 UTC 
emacs-23.1-11.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/emacs-23.1-11.fc11
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-04-01 16:10:11 UTC 
emacs-23.1-13.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/emacs-23.1-13.fc11
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2010-04-20 13:08:55 UTC 
emacs-23.1-13.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.