bug#2149: 23.0.60; docview set slice when avoidance mode active

bug#2149: 23.0.60; docview set slice when avoidance mode active

[MON KEY]

Selecting from menu-bar > DocView > Set Slice ;;;doc-view-set-slice-using-mouse
I am unable to freely move the mouse over the doc to set x & y for slice.
Mouse keeps jumping back to the right fringe per avoidance settings.
*BUT* if i move across the top of the menubar and/or *very* rapidly
move the mouse to left fringe I can get a few moments of mouse trigger
time before mouse re-banishes to right.

This is not intuitive behavior. If possible, when avoidance mode is
active the menu option should not be available and/or avoidance should
be temporarily overidden when doc-view-set-slice-using-mouse has been
invoked.
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In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2009-01-28
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
configured using `configure  '--with-jpeg=no''

Important settings:
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Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
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  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
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Mouse Avoidance Mode: banish
Mouse Avoidance Nudge Dist: 15
Mouse Avoidance Threshold: 5

bug#2149: 23.0.60; docview set slice when avoidance mode active

[Tassilo Horn]

MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com> writes:

Hi!

> Selecting from menu-bar > DocView > Set Slice
> ;;;doc-view-set-slice-using-mouse I am unable to freely move the mouse
> over the doc to set x & y for slice.  Mouse keeps jumping back to the
> right fringe per avoidance settings.  *BUT* if i move across the top
> of the menubar and/or *very* rapidly move the mouse to left fringe I
> can get a few moments of mouse trigger time before mouse re-banishes
> to right.
>
> This is not intuitive behavior.  If possible, when avoidance mode is
> active the menu option should not be available and/or avoidance should
> be temporarily overidden when doc-view-set-slice-using-mouse has been
> invoked.

Which avoidance setting do you use?  I tried animate, but the behavior
is not as frustrating as you say.

The problem with mouse-avoidance-mode is that it's a global minor mode,
so disabling it only for doc-view buffers doesn't work.  I could
deactivate it temporally while slicing with the mouse, but that doesn't
help much and works only around the real problem:

  mouse-avoidance-mode makes no sense and is irritating in buffers where
  point isn't visible like image-mode or doc-view.

Bye,
Tassilo

bug#2149: 23.0.60; docview set slice when avoidance mode active

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Which avoidance setting do you use?  I tried animate, but the behavior
> is not as frustrating as you say.

More information was requested two years ago, but was apparently not
given, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the bug is still present,
please reopen this report.

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