From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Marking with the mouse Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:06:16 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063401857 13896 80.91.224.253 (12 Sep 2003 21:24:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 12 23:24:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19xvOp-0002JS-00 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:24:15 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19xvQH-0008RN-00 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:25:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19xvOT-0000Fo-TD for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xvD7-00059t-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xvD4-00057H-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19xvCv-0004z8-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19xv7Q-0000fN-9S; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:06:16 -0400 Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-reply-to: (monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16348 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16348 > Someone in gnu.emacs.help recently complained about the weird behavior > of the highlighting when you drag the mouse while pressing mouse-1: > the selected text is highlighted during the drag but the highlighting > disappears immediately after that. I was thinking that maybe it's > a good idea to use the transient transient-mark-mode in this case, so > that marking with the mouse always behaves like transient-mark-mode. > That is an interesting idea. Could you install it with a variable to > control it, so that people could try it out, and we could decide later > on whether to make this change the default? I'm not sure this is worth an option. It's worth having an option initially, so people can try it out and see if they like it.