From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Chris Shea <cmshea@gmail.com>
Cc: 32578@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32578: Remove "joke" from drag events documentation
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 01:57:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wos71n0i.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANm7eBQM0wSPVr8UOXuqGxYUd8viT9kN2WxQTEH_T0F2zaskcA@mail.gmail.com> (Chris Shea's message of "Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:54:11 -0400")
> Good gracious, this isn't even a good joke. What if this patch changed the
> joke to something better? "A @dfn{drag event} happens every time the user
> presses a mouse button and then moves the mouse to a different character
> position before releasing the button. While that should never happen in
> practice, you may find it necessary to react to such events to remind the
> user that no true Emacs operator even owns a mouse."
Reminds me an illustration in an old book depicting a terminal with
an attached mouse and titled "workstation of a mouse operator"
where a mouse operator implied a profession :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-30 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 17:29 bug#32578: Remove "joke" from drag events documentation Chris Shea
2018-08-30 7:20 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-08-30 7:49 ` Colin Baxter
2018-08-30 9:13 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-30 13:51 ` Chris Shea
2018-08-31 6:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-09-02 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-02 3:49 ` Chris Shea
2018-09-03 6:26 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-30 20:08 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-08-30 20:54 ` Chris Shea
2018-08-30 22:57 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2018-08-31 1:23 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-01 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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