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From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Ergonomics: mouse clicking with scroll-margin
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 19:09:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuzdefr3.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org> (raw)

The combined behavior of the mouse and "scroll-margin" is a bit odd
currently and I wonder if there's something that can be done to improve
it.

If you have a buffer which has "scroll-margin" enabled, and you click
anywhere in the scroll-margin region, the point is moved and the buffer
is immediately scrolled.

This in turn often results in the click becoming a "drag" instead,
selecting parts of the buffer.

I rarely use the mouse, but when I do (usually in customize groups, or
when using eww), it trips me all the time since I use a rather large
scroll-margin.

Can this be improved _without_ disabling scroll-margin?

If feels like that moving the point when using the mouse shouldn't
trigger scroll-margin ever, since any action that causes a scroll would
immediately move the current target away and result in unintended
behavior. I can see the same effect when performing a selection by
dragging: once you reach the scroll-margin area every single motion
events selects half the visible buffer, which is also broken.

Is there a better approach?




             reply	other threads:[~2020-06-14 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-14 17:09 Yuri D'Elia [this message]
2020-06-14 17:45 ` Ergonomics: mouse clicking with scroll-margin Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-14 17:58   ` Yuri D'Elia
2020-06-14 19:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-14 18:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-01 12:34   ` Yuri D'Elia

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