From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
Cc: 36365@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36365: Add info how to deselect secondary selection (Emacs manual)
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:29:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ef23fxng.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <781c121b-b801-a8cb-4bf7-e8335782a55d@gmail.com> (message from Sebastian Urban on Fri, 2 Aug 2019 15:29:43 +0200)
> From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
> Cc: 36365@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 15:29:43 +0200
>
> > We've established that it isn't possible to deselect without making
> > a new selection.
>
> True.
>
> > So I don't think deselection is something we can describe, as it
> > doesn't really exist.
>
> That's why additional sentence won't be:
> "This command cancels any existing secondary selection."
> Instead it should be:
> "This command cancels any existing secondary selection, when it
> starts a new one."
>
> This sentence is from your patch and is applied to 'M-mouse-1'
> description in the manual, which runs 'mouse-start-secondary'.
It's okay for the manual to go an extra mile, but the fact that
starting a new selection cancels the old one is a trivium, so it isn't
necessary in the doc string.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-24 17:59 bug#36365: Add info how to deselect secondary selection (Emacs manual) Sebastian Urban
2019-07-06 8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 18:17 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-07-06 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-07 8:05 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-08-01 13:33 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-08-02 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-02 10:52 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-08-02 12:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-02 13:29 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-08-02 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-08-02 15:57 ` Sebastian Urban
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2019-07-06 21:12 ` Drew Adams
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