Inconsistent mark

[muhomor82]

Hi.

I can't find a consistency when using set-mark before the avy-goto-char command and then perform the jump.

What I'm trying to get is to select a region of interest by activating the mark with C-SPC and then jump to the end of the desired region (with avy-goto-char), but the mark most of the times deactivated automatically, when the point reaches the destination.

Is there some way to debug/customize this behavior, or maybe even some other command to perform the task alternatively?

[abo-abo]

What I'm trying to get is to select a region of interest by activating the mark with C-SPC and then jump to the end of the desired region (with avy-goto-char), but the mark most of the times deactivated automatically, when the point reaches the destination.

Must be something in your config, it works fine for me. Can you reproduce with emacs -Q?

[muhomor82]

I used emacs --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --no-splash (because -q cancels the avy package too) and it behaves exactly the same. But actually I narrowed down the issue: it works perfectly fine if only a single buffer is opened, otherwise something gets wrong. If I close all the buffers again and leave a single one, BOOM, works again. The fault is on my side, so I need to investigate further.

Thanks!

[abo-abo]

it works perfectly fine if only a single buffer is opened

Still works fine for me with multiple buffers.

Here's how to test it:

cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/abo-abo/avy
cd avy
make run

Alternatively (but then you have to bind avy-goto-char yourself):

cd avy
emacs -Q -l avy.el

Then C-SPC C-c j - it works.

[muhomor82]

Indeed, it works. I'll try to find which of my other configs causes the issue.

Thanks again.

[muhomor82]

By the way, it's a tabbar-ruler package which breaks something... When I omit it, everything is fine.

[abo-abo]

OK, glad the problem's solved.