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: Emacs Explorer? Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:22:40 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <6999B5E2-8EB3-11D8-9A7F-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> <8E554882-9453-11D8-A05E-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082742075 5190 80.91.224.253 (23 Apr 2004 17:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 23 19:41:08 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BH4fj-00016l-00 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:41:07 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BH4fj-0002MV-00 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:41:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BH4f0-0003lb-Ba for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BH4ar-00013V-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BH4aG-0000jF-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:35:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BH4PO-0004Fz-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:24:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BH4Ns-00072W-5o; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:22:40 -0400 Original-To: "Jan D." In-reply-to: <8E554882-9453-11D8-A05E-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (jan.h.d@swipnet.se) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:22075 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22075 > (2) implemented in other text editors works like this: > Mark some text with the mouse. Click on the selected text and > drag it. > > How can we make that fit into Emacs? It is inconsistent with the usual > Emacs conventions for mouse clicks. Exactly what is inconsistent? That mouse down does not clear the selected part or that it doesn't set mark, or something else? Each of the three mouse buttons has another standard meaning in Emacs which is different from this. So this is going to be an incompatible change. Perhaps use of Mouse-2 is an acceptable incompatible change. Normally, Mouse-2 in Dired will select the file you clicked on. Making it do something different when there is a region might be ok.