Bug 543046 - Using scroll bar in emacs highlights/selects text
Summary: Using scroll bar in emacs highlights/selects text
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: emacs
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Daniel Novotny
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-12-01 15:39 UTC by Roderick Johnstone
Modified: 2010-04-20 13:09 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: emacs-23.1-13.fc11
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-12-05 00:03:20 UTC
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a patch (2.74 KB, patch)
2009-12-02 16:42 UTC, Daniel Novotny
no flags Details | Diff

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]
a patch

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.


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