From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions? Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 16:25:49 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200205262225.g4QMPnQ06475@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <200205240043.g4O0hXj01216@aztec.santafe.edu> <200205252120.g4PLKb604508@aztec.santafe.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022452104 31863 127.0.0.1 (26 May 2002 22:28:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 22:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, keichwa@gmx.net, miles@gnu.org, bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17C6Ux-0008Ho-00 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 00:28:23 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17C6m0-0004dK-00 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 00:46:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17C6VW-0005Rh-00; Sun, 26 May 2002 18:28:58 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17C6SZ-0005JO-00; Sun, 26 May 2002 18:25:55 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g4QMPnK02046; Sun, 26 May 2002 16:25:49 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g4QMPnQ06475; Sun, 26 May 2002 16:25:49 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: jas@extundo.com In-Reply-To: (message from Simon Josefsson on Sun, 26 May 2002 01:05:02 +0200) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4407 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4407 Yes, the applications I tried behaved as you thought -- the selection is canceled if you click anywhere (inside or outside the selection). But Emacs already behaves this way from what I can tell. Yes, it does, but we were thinking of trying to add this drag-the-selection feature; the point is that a click in the selection (or out of it) should deselect it.