From: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mouse-autoselect-window-select
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:45:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <520CF78F.5020407@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520CAB65.60303@gmx.at>
> Unfortunately, some objects that shall be dragged can be difficult to
> localize with the mouse as, for example, the one-pixel divider between
> windows when scrollbars are absent. In such cases one window can get
> inadvertently selected even when selection is delayed. Disabling
> selection when the mouse is over a margin or fringe does help here. I
> invite you to experiment with the old and new behavior to either confirm
> my claim or provide evidence against it.
Is that true even when it is required that the mouse be completely still
for the delay? I would think that the user would be trembling the mouse
around continuously trying to find the small drag target.
Davis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-15 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-14 15:21 mouse-autoselect-window-select Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-14 15:36 ` mouse-autoselect-window-select martin rudalics
2013-08-14 15:59 ` mouse-autoselect-window-select Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-14 17:07 ` mouse-autoselect-window-select martin rudalics
2013-08-14 18:00 ` mouse-autoselect-window-select Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-15 10:20 ` mouse-autoselect-window-select martin rudalics
2013-08-15 14:59 ` mouse-autoselect-window-select Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-16 10:03 ` mouse-autoselect-window-select martin rudalics
2013-08-16 10:28 ` mouse-autoselect-window-select Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-15 15:45 ` Davis Herring [this message]
2013-08-16 10:03 ` mouse-autoselect-window-select martin rudalics
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