From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: transient-mark-mode in 22.0 Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:16:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1118265475.26257.16.camel@turtle.as.arizona.edu> <1118339690.31013.16.camel@turtle.as.arizona.edu> <1118443750.4986.119.camel@turtle.as.arizona.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118533347 26807 80.91.229.2 (11 Jun 2005 23:42:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:42:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 12 01:42:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhFcB-000676-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 01:42:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhFge-0007QK-Ov for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:46:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhFbG-0005Du-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhFbE-0005DC-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhFZX-0004JO-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DhFEN-00080S-Lm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DhFDL-0006ql-1c; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:16:31 -0400 Original-To: JD Smith In-reply-to: <1118443750.4986.119.camel@turtle.as.arizona.edu> (message from JD Smith on Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:49:10 -0700) 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:38608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38608 So does anyone besides me see it as a problem that mouse-drag-region does not return when the mouse drag is complete, but instead requires yet another event of some kind (any kind) after the mouse-up to let it return? Is that not a new bug? That function's is to implement the mouse click. Other uses are not part of its purpose, and I would not want to risk rewriting it merely for the sake of other uses. However, Stefan has an idea for simplification that might be ok.