From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:32:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <96744EC264DC4E52A46A6834E8BDAD05@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309743205 31105 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2011 01:33:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 01:33:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6174@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 04 03:33:21 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdY2K-0006JZ-IQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:33:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37611 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdY2J-0001RM-P3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44571) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdY24-0001R6-Qd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:33:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdY23-00007D-T9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:33:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdY23-000079-QK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdY22-0001u4-VV; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:33:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:33:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6174 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6174-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6174.13097431817308 (code B ref 6174); Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:33:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6174) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Jul 2011 01:33:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdY21-0001tp-Ci for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:33:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183] helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdY20-0001tf-2J for 6174@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:33:00 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EACYYEU5FxIxr/2dsb2JhbABSp3t4iHrBaYY2BJ5chCw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,469,1304308800"; d="scan'208";a="120225011" Original-Received: from 69-196-140-107.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.140.107]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 03 Jul 2011 21:32:30 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6FD6B59173; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 21:32:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:10:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:33:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:47905 Archived-At: >> From what I could gather by experimenting, 99.99% of the behavior that >> is documented is already the mouse behavior in Emacs, that is, with >> mouse-sel-mode turned off. >> >> AFAICT, the only real difference is that when the mode is turned on the >> selection is not copied to the kill-ring. The kill-ring is unaffected, >> except if you do some specific extra things. > [...] >> If I had to guess, I'd guess that this doc has never been updated since >> Emacs itself adopted the same selection behavior. And that was eons >> ago. IOW, maybe mouse-sel-mode was just the first code to provide such >> behavior - dunno. > Yes, looking at the documentation, I think that's right. > Perhaps mouse-sel-mode should be marked as deprecated? Probably. Let's do that for Emacs-24.2. Stefan