From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 6174@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:10:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oc1cw4nl.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96744EC264DC4E52A46A6834E8BDAD05@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 11 May 2010 13:05:18 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 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?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-03 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-11 20:05 bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading Drew Adams
2011-07-03 1:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-07-04 1:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-04 12:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-05 0:21 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-05 13:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 2:48 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 16:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <m3oc174aay.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
2011-07-06 20:36 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-07-07 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 2:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-11 7:07 ` Chong Yidong
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