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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Session ends"?
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:27:29 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k3yqb7i.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831qz2hxnk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:47:27 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> diff --git a/doc/lispref/frames.texi b/doc/lispref/frames.texi
>> index bae8eb3..38897d6 100644
>> --- a/doc/lispref/frames.texi
>> +++ b/doc/lispref/frames.texi
>> @@ -4038,6 +4038,35 @@ Drag and Drop
>>  still no match has been found, the text for the URL is inserted.  If
>>  you want to alter Emacs behavior, you can customize these variables.
>> 
>> +@cindex initiating drag-and-drop
>> +  On some window systems, Emacs also supports dragging contents from
>> +itself to other frames.
>> +
>> +@defun x-begin-drag targets action &optional frame
>> +This function begins a drag from @var{frame}, and returns when the
>> +session ends, either because the drop was successful, or because the
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> "When the session ends"?  You mean, this function will not return
> until I kill Emacs?  Or what "session" is alluded to here?

It's supposed to explain what a "drag session" is: something that starts
when a drag starts, and ends when when the drop is successful or when it
was rejected by the drop target.

Is there any way to word that better?

Thanks.




  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-16 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-16 12:47 "Session ends"? Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-16 13:27 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-03-16 13:41   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-16 13:46     ` Po Lu

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