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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
Cc: 36365-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36365: Add info how to deselect secondary selection (Emacs manual)
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:31:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhlr8sxv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e18bef17-9b93-da5f-bc47-1481acebfde5@gmail.com> (message from Sebastian Urban on Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:59:42 +0200)

> From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:59:42 +0200
> 
> Because, if it's "selection", people may think that to deselect all
> you need is to click 'mouse-1' somewhere, but it doesn't work, as well
> as 'C-g' and it may be confusing.
> 
> Therefore please add information about 'M-mouse-1' as a way to
> deselect, perhaps somewhere next to the L626-627 or after the
> definition of 'M-mouse-1' L607-608 in KILLING.TEXI.
> 
> Then update documentation string for 'mouse-start-secondary' with the
> same information.
> 
> ===
> 
> Also (because it's the same chapter) in Emacs manual (INFO) "12.3.3
> Secondary Selection" description of 'M-mouse-3' could be changed:
> 
> FROM
> Set the secondary selection, with one end at the position clicked
> and the other at the position specified with ‘M-mouse-1’
> (‘mouse-secondary-save-then-kill’).  This also puts the selected
> text in the kill ring.  A second ‘M-mouse-3’ at the same place
> kills the secondary selection just made.
> 
> TO
> Set the secondary selection, with one end at the position clicked and
> the other at the position specified with ‘M-mouse-1’, and put the
> selected text in the kill ring (‘mouse-secondary-save-then-kill’).
> A second ‘M-mouse-3’ at the same place kills the secondary selection
> just made.
> 
> Placement of 'mouse-secondary-save-then-kill' will be better, right
> now it may confuse people because it stands next to 'M-mouse-1' which
> has different command.

Thanks, I fixed these two issues.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-06  8:31 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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
2019-08-02 15:57                       ` Sebastian Urban
     [not found] <<e18bef17-9b93-da5f-bc47-1481acebfde5@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <<83zhlr8sxv.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<62734ba6-a335-710a-2d09-3b54f0d58bde@gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <<834l3z81ni.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <<831rz38107.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-07-06 21:12         ` Drew Adams

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