From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38013: [PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 19:27:33 +0100 Message-ID: <40CAE779-D166-400F-A369-AEC25CF3FF1B@acm.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.11\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="244036"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 38013@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 07 19:33:55 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 1iSmbT-0011L0-5t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:27:38 -0500 X-Authenticated-User: mattiase@bredband.net DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=megamailservers.eu; s=maildub; t=1573151255; bh=x2r9lxw7A+i7ybhwLGbb4n0Qu34pMiChh2f2OxIqzpI=; h=Subject:From:In-Reply-To:Date:Cc:References:To:From; b=a7pgo8rbyUxdLVyjzMMYQHb28cRwpegzPtUv85ikXaGg3UUsAsIa+YLvBB3Q0vdmT gE236f3BDTmupkVV94aqrafNyEPSZlyjeW1sSSv2g1PVRTgv1ZEU0AOtuFPhbBhxPn gWVLFOTHNcYF5EXdEvWBkS2mh8d45HL7jW5RCH8o= Feedback-ID: mattiase@acm.or Original-Received: from [192.168.1.64] (c-4c48e655.032-75-73746f71.bbcust.telenor.se [85.230.72.76]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail194c50.megamailservers.eu (8.14.9/8.13.1) with ESMTP id xA7IRXjJ004368; Thu, 7 Nov 2019 18:27:35 +0000 X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.11) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B020E.5DC46217.005F, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.3 cv=TbLoSiYh c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=1rTi8g4bvmsLpnurc7XrhA==:117 a=1rTi8g4bvmsLpnurc7XrhA==:17 a=jpOVt7BSZ2e4Z31A5e1TngXxSK0=:19 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=M51BFTxLslgA:10 a=yPCof4ZbAAAA:8 a=kRwGVbMmZLrHqsYZCAQA:9 a=7Zwj6sZBwVKJAoWSPKxL6X1jA+E=:19 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=pHzHmUro8NiASowvMSCR:22 a=Ew2E2A-JSTLzCXPT_086:22 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:171107 Archived-At: 7 nov. 2019 kl. 18.53 skrev Drew Adams : > My latest question was why we would add all of that > stuff - options for choosing modifiers etc. _Users > have control_ over key bindings now. Just what's > the point of adding this other stuff? That the least important part of the patch --- it was mainly to make it = easier to change the bindings in a consistent way, since there are = multiple bindings that go together. > And what exactly does that have to do with selecting > a rectangular region with the mouse? Why should that > be mixed in with providing the possibility of using > a mouse to select a rectangular region? The Meta modifier was already used by the secondary selection. Shift or = control could have been used as well; I just picked the one that = appeared to be used the least. It's not worth arguing about either, = particular not at this stage; let's get the basics right first. > And why provide any binding, by default, for doing > that? The feature hasn't even been introduced to > users yet. Why would we sacrifice a default binding > for it at this time? I'm not sure what you mean. Of course rectangular selection needs a = binding. We just have to select one that is less bad than the = alternatives.