From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shift selection using interactive spec Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:53:15 -0400 Message-ID: <874pb5c690.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87k5k69p92.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200803140408.m2E47hPU014494@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87prtxpekk.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87abl11ilo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <874pb9koyw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87od9gzqv9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87bq5gytbi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8763vndi0r.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87hcf6ratt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878x0if9ul.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87od9e9gnx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <873aqp5mzs.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <47DEEF89.2040602@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205794570 13438 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2008 22:56:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Kim F. Storm" , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 17 23:56:38 2008 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 1JbOFx-0002hm-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:56:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbOFN-0008HP-BH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbOFJ-0008HA-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:55:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbOFH-0008Gu-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbOFG-0008Gq-Rb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbOFG-0000lV-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 54E854E3B9; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:53:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <47DEEF89.2040602@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Mon\, 17 Mar 2008 23\:24\:09 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:92856 Archived-At: martin rudalics writes: > Currently I do not find a single way to handle the following scenario > reliably: (1) Select some "region" of text, (2) scroll the window the > text appears in such that `window-point' gets relocated, (3) perform an > action on the region selected in step (1). Everything I tried so far > (transient-mark-mode, mouse-drag-region, delete-selection-mode, > pc-selection-mode, CUA-mode) failed. Any plans to handle this? There are no plans for this, and I don't see how it could be accomplished. (For certain such purposes, you might be able to use registers to do what you want.)