From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion for mouse-based cut/copy/yank Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:41:06 +0200 Message-ID: <85ejiv83m5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <86lkd3pazl.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185471765 25288 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2007 17:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:42:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 26 19:42:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IE7MI-0006hZ-J5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:42:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IE7MH-0006qe-W1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:42:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IE7Kw-0001rQ-7V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:41:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IE7Ku-0001m2-Bv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IE7Ku-0001lc-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.48]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IE7Ks-0006r1-Sj; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.20]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B4D27BABC; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:41:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (mail-in-12.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.52]) by mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1501A212FB6; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:41:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-079-089.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.79.89]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3AB8C465; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:41:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 01D281C39595; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:41:06 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 26 Jul 2007 12\:59\:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/3776/Thu Jul 26 17:41:16 2007 on mail-in-12.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75598 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > However, when yanking with a click, material is yanked right at point > rather than at the start of line. > > That is a nuisance. So I think it would be nice to store the > "granularity" of a mouse click/mark away and use it to move to begin > of word/line before yanking. > > I think that would be a bug. Intentional behavior is never a bug. It may at worst be stupid or annoying. > You can change this yourself, but I don't think we should change > Emacs' normal behavior. So it would be ok to provide this as an optional feature? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum