From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Marking with the mouse Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:14:27 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030910001427.GA12330@fencepost> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063157915 2058 80.91.224.253 (10 Sep 2003 01:38:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 01:38:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 10 03:38:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19wtwH-000350-00 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:38:33 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19wtwR-0006lQ-00 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:38:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19wtok-0001GN-K9 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 21:30:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19wsk0-0000de-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 20:21:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19wsjM-0000BL-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 20:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19wsi3-0007te-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 20:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19wsct-0003IE-Td; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 20:14:27 -0400 Original-To: Stefan Monnier Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16252 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16252 On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:38:56PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I was thinking that maybe it's a good idea to use the transient > transient-mark-mode in this case, so that marking with the mouse always > behaves like transient-mark-mode. This is based on the idea that those who > dislike transient-mark-mode probably don't often use the mouse to select > the region. Looks like the right thing to me. BTW, shouldn't the documentation for the `transient-mark-mode' variable mention this special behavior when set to `lambda' (why `lambda', anyway?)? I was a bit confused until I did some grepping. -Miles -- I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over. --Ian Wolff