From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Adolf Mathias <adolf.mathias@gmail.com>
Cc: 34014@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34014: 25.2; binding down mouse event with modifier to mouse-drag-region does not work
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 07:34:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmk6KbbrKtjj5nZG_znBjCNY-Lv=xDmWcqN=gQ7d4VZwVg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACHJYueuu5j8OJUnePaBsrt_wwvg-0UF1FmhNRaankMUjFUqeQ@mail.gmail.com>
Adolf Mathias <adolf.mathias@gmail.com> writes:
> The function allows a workflow that I know from the SunOS Textedit
> from the late 1980s. Your cursor is somewhere in the text, you drag
> out a region in the same window/buffer or another one, and the text
> that you selected gets copied to your cursor at mouse button release,
> without having to reposition your cursor.
Does the following cover your use case?
(setq mouse-drag-copy-region t)
Alternatively:
M-x customize-option RET mouse-drag-copy-region RET
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-16 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-08 9:51 bug#34014: 25.2; binding down mouse event with modifier to mouse-drag-region does not work Adolf Mathias
2019-03-01 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-13 12:02 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] ` <CACHJYuftHtcJ_ixA0vKbRavKstkaR8fkBaZxyoO_N41Zq7Qy4w@mail.gmail.com>
2020-08-14 14:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-14 18:58 ` Adolf Mathias
2020-08-15 2:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-15 11:53 ` Adolf Mathias
2020-08-16 14:34 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-08-16 16:20 ` Adolf Mathias
2020-08-16 17:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-16 20:54 ` Adolf Mathias
2020-08-17 14:27 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] ` <CACHJYue_KVWZ=wF-sa6nHCsAso0SDb0XSoXCRgW0teiR_Gt15Q@mail.gmail.com>
2020-08-18 13:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-18 15:07 ` Adolf Mathias
2020-08-18 15:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-15 12:07 ` Adolf Mathias
2020-08-16 21:00 ` bug#34014: Adolf Mathias
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