From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:10:06 +0200 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 1309655538 30150 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2011 01:12:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 01:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6174@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 03:12:14 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 1QdBEM-00046U-C9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:12:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38955 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdBEL-0005M8-Gx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50412) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdBDF-0005CR-9z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:11:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdBDD-0006Xf-OI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:11:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43876) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdBDD-0006XZ-M9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdBDD-0006tK-4w; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:11:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:11:03 +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=B6174.130965543026437 (code B ref 6174); Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:11:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6174) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Jul 2011 01:10:30 +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 1QdBCg-0006sL-8r for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdBCe-0006rn-8J for 6174@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:10:28 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no ([84.215.51.58] helo=quimbies.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QdBCT-0006h7-56; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:10:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <96744EC264DC4E52A46A6834E8BDAD05@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 11 May 2010 13:05:18 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Now-Playing: Various's _Polska! Year_: "Piotr Zabrodzki-Tatsuya Yoshida - April in Random" X-Hashcash: 1:23:110703:6174@debbugs.gnu.org::ZC/1kzegf7kLe7gq:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000VS6Z X-Hashcash: 1:23:110703:drew.adams@oracle.com::6L6pHg3EygqvRyRy:0000000000000000000000000000000000000002o7Cc X-MailScanner-ID: 1QdBCT-0006h7-56 MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1310260217.22222@PVcoJh/6HQw2FXoWNva00Q X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:11:03 -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:47800 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" 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? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/