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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Selection threshold with mouse
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 12:41:47 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5f7ace9-98a9-4e9d-8a46-72d6cd744573@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<837g395gp2.fsf@gnu.org>>

> > if you set the mark and then move left, the highlighted character is
> > not in the region.
> 
> The highlighted characters are always part of the region.  Emacs never
> highlights characters that are not part of the region: doing so would
> be misleading and confusing.

I think Barry meant that the char that appeared to be under the cursor
is not part of the region (in the scenario he described). Not that it
was highlighted using the region highlighting but that it was
"highlighted" by the (box) cursor (before moving point).



      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-19 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-19  8:32 Selection threshold with mouse Tak Kunihiro
2014-07-19 17:31 ` Drew Adams
2014-07-19 23:52   ` Tak Kunihiro
2014-07-20  1:22     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-20  4:23       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.5728.1405830249.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-20 14:37         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-20 15:04           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <mailman.5763.1405868682.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-20 15:37             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-20 16:24               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <mailman.5768.1405873481.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-20 16:44                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-20 17:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-21 14:20                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-21 15:31                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-23  0:27       ` Tak Kunihiro
2014-07-25  8:41         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-20  1:26     ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found] ` <mailman.5704.1405791121.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-19 18:26   ` Barry Margolin
2014-07-19 18:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <<837g395gp2.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-07-19 19:41       ` Drew Adams [this message]

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