From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38013: [PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 19:28:48 +0100 Message-ID: <3b74a108-28e3-fd01-64a5-7c4302e3d979@gmx.at> References: <83lft0m3ug.fsf@gnu.org> <3541E0E8-9E33-4FBD-B0D9-DFF77C241F6F@acm.org> <83y2wzlorw.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9s3lo5f.fsf@gnu.org> <75EC4FBC-F636-4D75-BAC4-982D85188794@acm.org> <9b9222ad-ead7-d0a0-0602-780d0680f070@gmx.at> <6bf229f4-c22f-c3c2-5158-5235f908de3c@gmx.at> <8ec84837-172c-1ce5-cab0-b4c96a86274e@gmx.at> <411EAB4E-B666-4263-8514-5F47391268B1@acm.org> <2df02c1f-fea4-f764-eba6-fd67de581755@gmx.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="96228"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 38013@debbugs.gnu.org To: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 08 19:34:25 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iT95V-000OvR-Ha for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=relaxed/simple; d=gmx.net; s=badeba3b8450; t=1573237727; bh=UGMAWroDnxtnJKqDPuNcpmLgow4q/3TXj41t/9LtFmk=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=UNllDZJWIWyVpxqwCdk1e7qdCi4o7Th5bOMiGUWIC1XTYaKq9rOkaQRPwHFNojcTh GctKL2yK07Azk04bunkl84fyYSbATb4qJZZpCWJ//X+JMtj0ds/aH1xoJcmCmf2oNX Rk+Hdt+cTsmrzTIxFXZ8wk1Vrfvqj6FLixXjeMxA= X-UI-Sender-Class: 01bb95c1-4bf8-414a-932a-4f6e2808ef9c Original-Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([212.95.5.197]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx004 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MQ5rO-1iFzpP2xEG-00M1l4; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 19:28:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: de-AT X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:vqI55qEkdNykC758iSuWt/zglZz21vnQoQ+qb0vnMvDDRqup83U v8V2o2Rcd0nqvHlFgTXDXiE1ZTBwC3PFGn0A1y6GRSSL+HPF2L33qd4SYxPJMdwELpmhg6o 4tkwxyGeM0TZKs4lfXP+qPpuSOtmtrhqrjGdPETl9+N9z0R22ZEfJ+BkxvO8pYqp2HWeaVH aajOa80OqUnzcLSyvIHqQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:bkT6HiUn++0=:oBGbSI60/PYzOBQjCc9kMv 5tjXXvHgKOIczkUj5RnwA15xPcFcclMQes1lxP0W6J2DKESiV+QjbzotDtGPAZNqSZJapARZI vofy/d5V1lfpgfnoaNhCyJGdKbb+3pIeIYERbvMOX4AyRtdpyEHJLhrYPTfZ/hIRm9PBGcXRs Jbhnz60TtGqAkFAzJL+6FtRs2DjqaEAxHF2byqVjMm55L6oVC2gk4wPYC6pwj7uveGaD4jGdE u+IxClAOXv31OJv1LEUGEffv7tG06MrI6sAn/wRd4HxpRA5/O5EbQUZbNUVaepCK9+D6bprkn 7moPxiU9NWuPz1CFsUtCVeBv+D+3SF2nvbYbM98/+ymEh5Qw7xwTJBPA65sWsd6Ii4j2Hi6eL nZUQ+3RYGR1HFswYIrLt4HbG0nIRMVWnce4I+yYCLiuQDhE4TQzMmIHuawcBU5Og4prQoGbXw Bkxe7mF2ILd1DQdhEMSLIKi6mu185uuJQlDxF7nM8rILnZLIpItgQ8hgU3o3gpBdyGaRllyId eeRVonuXKRJc/UDfc6IS1AgythqXWroCHrqn43KVoQ3wTnCTALDo91hs9DDUt6LIfFnu0w9FO CIdat2qG4U2Z0AfnG7E3/aC2iawJ0ShbM11H+OmUPJ7lTIz0ww0211fiJiL+4L8+lXpS3EEgr HEJ9N2zunotPxPEP6OgFQ8XPN72WX/EakELvA2wYH786lvuKfUh/PsBKBnwanhP/m7tWzAuoF +3++atb2RIoJW2WSv4DuDXGfL+XgsBj9QEXYU9Nq2Tf5CSeZIdlPbW/4FQc1Fzb2GehdKsmS X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:171245 Archived-At: > I can assure you that press-select-release semantics for popup menus > is very common, At least here on Windows pressing the right mouse button does nothing with Firefox, Thunderbird or the desktop. > and has been for several decades. Most applications also support the > click-select-click model. > > However, I think we largely agree that the current buffer and face > menus are of limited utility and that their bindings should not be > considered sacred territory. I fully agree but obviously cannot speak for the others. It would be nice though to settle this very issue in order to free the down bindings for good. > Thank you; it's not very convenient on my keyboards, so I'd rather > use control-meta, but plain meta is of course better still. In > decreasing order of preference: meta, control, shift, control-meta, > shift-meta, shift-control. It's clearly up to you to propose any of them. martin