From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Marking with the mouse Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:50:04 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063289074 25638 80.91.224.253 (11 Sep 2003 14:04:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 11 16:04:32 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 19xS3k-00031O-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:04:32 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19xS4X-0001z3-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:05:25 +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 19xRq6-00026K-3u for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xRps-00025C-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xRpo-00024I-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:50:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.111.8.13] (helo=rose.csi.cam.ac.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19xRpo-00023t-31; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from cass41.ast.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.69.186]) by rose.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19xRpl-0005Tc-JI; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:50:05 +0100 Original-Received: from xserv1.ast.cam.ac.uk (IDENT:6Z4BVvk055O7CPDF7Uu9iM3wVRjFr7xC@xserv1.ast.cam.ac.uk [131.111.69.235]) by cass41.ast.cam.ac.uk (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8BDo5ZC002786; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:50:05 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from xserv1.ast.cam.ac.uk (IDENT:uzPjlTaVvfJwhOf3DZtFVg8Ujf3yRyDv@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk [131.111.69.34]) by xserv1.ast.cam.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h8BDo4117532; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:50:04 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Attribution: GM Mail-Followup-To: rms@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:16:06 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned 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:16298 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16298 Richard Stallman wrote: > Could you say more specifically just what aspect of the new behavior > does or would irritate you? Knowing this would help me understand > the issue. I mark a region by holding down mouse-1 and dragging. The highlighting that appears while I'm doing this is helpful for me to see the extent of the region change as I move the mouse. Once I let go of mouse-1, I have decided on the extent of the region, and I don't need (or want) to see the highlighting any more. I almost always click mouse-1 at this point, specifically to turn OFF the highlighting of the region. As I understand it, the proposed change would disable that. Once I'm done with selecting the region, I don't want the visual feedback on its extent any more. IMO, it's just clutter; in the same way that transient-mark-mode is just a distraction to me. So a (not really serious) counter-suggestion: make the highlighting vanish as soon as mouse-1 is released, so I don't have to do an extra action to get rid of it. ;)