From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: <miha@kamnitnik.top>
Cc: 58176@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58176: 29.0.50; mouse-set-point region flicker with highlight-nonselected-windows=t and same buffer in two windows
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 08:38:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czbccddy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h70otvgs.fsf@miha-pc>
> From: <miha@kamnitnik.top>
> Cc: 58176@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 23:15:31 +0200
>
> >> Well, maybe we could try a bit harder to reduce the flicker for ordinary
> >> non-dragging mouse-1 clicks. One idea could be to prevent down-mouse-1
> >> from activating mark until the region becomes non-zero length, so
> >> something like this patch.
> >
> > Thanks, but this is exactly the opposite of the behavior we want. We
> > currently make a significant effort to show regions of zero length.
>
> (I'm assuming that by "show regions of zero length", you mean that the
> "Copy text" toolbar icon is enabled.)
No, we actually attempt to display zero-length regions in the text.
> I hope I'm not arguing semantics too much, but my patch doesn't actually
> hide an (active) region of zero length, it prevents one from being
> activated.
Which is against the behavior we want, I think.
> It only prevents it in the specific case of a non-dragging mouse-1
> click, which makes quite a lot sense to me. The current behaviour of a
> non-dragging mouse-1 click is that the zero-length region is only active
> for the duration of the mouse button being held down. Once the button is
> released, the zero-length region is deactivated, which makes it not very
> useful, as far as I can see.
It is useful in the much more frequent use case where the user then
drags the mouse.
> If you want to create a zero-length region that stays active after
> releasing mouse-1, you have to drag the mouse a little first to make the
> region length non-zero and then drag the mouse back to the starting
> position to make the region length zero again. This use case is still
> supported by my patch.
>
> (Perhaps I missed some use-cases of a zero-length region active during a
> non-dragging mouse-1 button hold. If you know any, please let me know
> about them.)
>
> This, together with the fact that it reduces the "flicker" from the
> original message, makes me insist on the patch.
I still insist that what you propose is the opposite of the behavior
we want.
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2022-09-29 17:38 bug#58176: 29.0.50; mouse-set-point region flicker with highlight-nonselected-windows=t and same buffer in two windows miha--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-29 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-29 21:09 ` miha--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-30 5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-30 21:15 ` miha--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-01 5:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-01 10:00 ` miha--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-01 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
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