From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36365: Add info how to deselect secondary selection (Emacs manual) Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:29:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83ef23fxng.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zhlr8sxv.fsf@gnu.org> <62734ba6-a335-710a-2d09-3b54f0d58bde@gmail.com> <834l3z81ni.fsf@gnu.org> <831rz38107.fsf@gnu.org> <2d744cb6-8aae-2af4-d4c1-1c263cbc5866@gmail.com> <599a8119-24c4-d1cc-c022-fdde7826b677@gmail.com> <831ry4gcwv.fsf@gnu.org> <83k1bvg4cq.fsf@gnu.org> <781c121b-b801-a8cb-4bf7-e8335782a55d@gmail.com> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="127258"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 36365@debbugs.gnu.org To: Sebastian Urban Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 02 16:31:09 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 1htYaK-000X0U-WF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 16:31:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35318 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htYaJ-00042U-P7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38405) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htYaE-00042N-QY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1htYaD-0004XZ-UO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48718) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1htYaD-0004XL-RH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htYaD-0002tf-NL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:31:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:31:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36365 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 36365-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36365.15647562087790 (code B ref 36365); Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:31:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36365) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Aug 2019 14:30:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57539 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htYZL-00020e-6Y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53856) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htYZJ-0001vI-Pn for 36365@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40194) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1htYZE-0003W5-LV; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:30:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3180 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1htYZE-00013R-2q; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:30:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <781c121b-b801-a8cb-4bf7-e8335782a55d@gmail.com> (message from Sebastian Urban on Fri, 2 Aug 2019 15:29:43 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:164358 Archived-At: > From: Sebastian Urban > 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.