mouse-down-2 sometimes does not paste

mouse-down-2 sometimes does not paste

[Ulrich Scholz]

Dear all,

I'm using Gnu Emacs 23.2.1 on Kubuntu 10.10.  I often copy text by
marking it with the sequence down-mouse-1 and down-mouse-3 mouse-3
(left and right button) and inserting it with down-mouse-2 (middle
button).

Since quite some versions, inserting does not always work.  Sometimes,
the text "jumps" a bit instead, i.e., the text shown in the editor
scrolls up one line.  On the second or third try, inserting eventually
succeeds.

Does anyone know this behaviour/bug? What info should I give when
posting the bug report?

Best regards,

Ulrich

Re: mouse-down-2 sometimes does not paste

[David Kastrup]

Ulrich Scholz <d7@thispla.net> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm using Gnu Emacs 23.2.1 on Kubuntu 10.10.  I often copy text by
> marking it with the sequence down-mouse-1 and down-mouse-3 mouse-3
> (left and right button) and inserting it with down-mouse-2 (middle
> button).
>
> Since quite some versions, inserting does not always work.  Sometimes,
> the text "jumps" a bit instead, i.e., the text shown in the editor
> scrolls up one line.  On the second or third try, inserting eventually
> succeeds.
>
> Does anyone know this behaviour/bug? What info should I give when
> posting the bug report?

Sounds like a scroll-wheel problem.  There are various variables for
dealing with various aspects of those problems.  For example:

mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time is a variable defined in `mwheel.el'.
Its value is 0.35

Documentation:
Time in seconds to inhibit clicking on mouse wheel button after scroll.

You can customize this variable.

[back]


-- 
David Kastrup

Re: mouse-down-2 sometimes does not paste

[Ulrich Scholz]

Hi,

I tried several values for mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time up to 6.
That did not solve the problem and, most probably, does not change the
behaviour at all.  Due to its sporadic nature, I cannot say the latter
for sure.

Any other suggestions?

Best, Ulrich

On 15 Mrz., 12:21, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Sounds like a scroll-wheel problem.  There are various variables for
> dealing with various aspects of those problems.  For example:
>
> mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time is a variable defined in `mwheel.el'.
> Its value is 0.35
>
> Documentation:
> Time in seconds to inhibit clicking on mouse wheel button after scroll.
>
> You can customize this variable.
>
> [back]
>
> --
> David Kastrup

Re: mouse-down-2 sometimes does not paste

[David Kastrup]

Ulrich Scholz <d7@thispla.net> writes:

>> On 15 Mrz., 12:21, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Sounds like a scroll-wheel problem.  There are various variables for
>>> dealing with various aspects of those problems.  For example:
>>>
>>> mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time is a variable defined in `mwheel.el'.
>>> Its value is 0.35
>>>
>>> Documentation:
>>> Time in seconds to inhibit clicking on mouse wheel button after scroll.
>>>
>>> You can customize this variable.
>
> I tried several values for mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time up to 6.
> That did not solve the problem and, most probably, does not change the
> behaviour at all.

Sounds a bit like "I've boiled this damn egg for 20 minutes and it is
still hard as a rock."

-- 
David Kastrup

Re: mouse-down-2 sometimes does not paste

[Ulrich Scholz]

On 17 Mrz., 16:01, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Sounds a bit like "I've boiled this damn egg for 20 minutes and it is
> still hard as a rock."

Setting the value to 0.1 does not have any effect either

Ulrich

Re: mouse-down-2 sometimes does not paste

[Javier]

This has been discussed here a pair of months ago

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/77998


Ulrich Scholz <d7@thispla.net> wrote:
> On 17 Mrz., 16:01, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Sounds a bit like "I've boiled this damn egg for 20 minutes and it is
>> still hard as a rock."
> 
> Setting the value to 0.1 does not have any effect either
> 
> Ulrich

Re: mouse-down-2 sometimes does not paste

[Ulrich Scholz]

Thanks for pointing to these interesting articles.  Unfortunately, I
don't see how they relate to my problem. If they do, please give me a
hint.

I have the problem with the X version of Emacs, not with emacs-nw.
And pasting eventually works in every instance. But sometimes not on
the first try.  Often, it takes two or more middle-clicks for
achieving a paste. But nothing else has to be done in between the
clicks. If it fails, I just try it again and have a good chance that
it works this time.

Every time a middle-click does not result in pasting, the text in the
Emacs window jumps by one line instead.

Best, Ulrich

On 24 Mrz., 02:52, Javier <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> This has been discussed here a pair of months ago
>
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/77998

Re: mouse-down-2 sometimes does not paste

[Johan Bockgård]

Ulrich Scholz <d7@thispla.net> writes:

> Every time a middle-click does not result in pasting, the text in the
> Emacs window jumps by one line instead.

Try `C-h l' when this happens.

Re: mouse-down-2 sometimes does not paste

[Ulrich Scholz]

On 26 Mrz., 17:53, Johan Bockgård <bojohan+n...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Try `C-h l' when this happens.

The last entries are as follows. You see that I had to try it several
times until the faulty behaviour occured.
But I could not detect any mouse dragging on the last click.

Ulrich

<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-3> <mouse-3>
<down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <down-mouse-2>
<mouse-2> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2>
<down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <down-mouse-2>
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-2> C-h l