From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Marking with the mouse Date: 11 Sep 2003 12:31:49 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ad9cl9ly.fsf@emacswiki.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063300419 18449 80.91.224.253 (11 Sep 2003 17:13:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:13:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 11 19:13:37 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 19xV0j-0008Qv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:13:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19xV1d-0007sH-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:14:33 +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 19xV07-0002yS-9y for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xUyg-0002b8-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xUhK-0007Yd-Ho for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19xUMS-000529-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: from noir.iro.umontreal.ca (noir.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.236]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8BGVoHD017529; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:31:50 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by noir.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h8BGVoUN007366; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:31:50 -0400 Original-To: Alex Schroeder In-Reply-To: <87ad9cl9ly.fsf@emacswiki.org> Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-MailScanner-DIRO: Found to be clean 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:16301 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16301 [ I'll assume below that my patch was applied. ] > I agree with Glenn. But then again, perhaps I did not understand the > problem. Here is what I often do. > 1. transient-mark-mode is nil > 2. I mark a chunk of text using one of the following methods with the > mouse from time to time: > a. double click on a word > b. drag with mouse-1 > c. click with mouse-1 and click with mouse-3 At this point, the region is highlighted and transient-mark-mode is temporarily turned on. > 3. I then either > a. delete (double-click mouse-3) > b. paste (mouse-2 elsewhere) > c. click somewhere again using mouse-1 to make sure that the > position is correct, and then paste (using mouse-2 or C-y). All three should turn off transient-mark-mode, so after 3 the highlighting should be gone. If that is not what you're seeing, it's a bug. Stefan