Re: incremental search abandoned on mouse movements

[Garreau, Alexandre]

On 2018-10-29 at 16:56, Mick Bert wrote:
> Il giorno lun 29 ott 2018 alle ore 16:11 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> ha
> scritto:
>>
>> > From: Mick Bert <micbert75@gmail.com>
>> > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:52:13 +0100
>> >
>> > Since few days I've been observing a strange behavior: I start an
>> > incremental search (C-s), and emacs hilights all the visible matches,
> but
>> > as soon as I move the mouse pointer, the search is cancelled (just like
> I
>> > pressed C-g).
>> > Have I activated unconsciously a kind of option or function?
>>
>> What does "C-l" show you after the above?
>>
> Anyway I tried C-h L, and I obtained:

you mean « C-h l » ?  C-h L is different and sets up language
environment.

> Is it related to gdb-mode I am using in another buffer? Perhaps the tooltip
> of gdb-mode?

>From what I read, yes.