From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Selection threshold with mouse Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 12:41:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <<20140719.173203.1998048028110686770.tak.kunihiro@gmail.com> > <<837g395gp2.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405798956 16811 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2014 19:42:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:42:36 +0000 (UTC) To: Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 19 21:42:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X8aWa-0005K2-9y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:42:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55394 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8aWZ-0006zv-Uv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35655) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8aWG-0006yo-Ee for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:42:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8aW7-0001tf-Mi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:16537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8aVy-0001oo-Es; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s6JJfnEu005214 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:41:49 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s6JJfm1s014529 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:41:49 GMT Original-Received: from ubhmt120.oracle.com (ubhmt120.oracle.com [156.151.24.25]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s6JJfl69006723; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:41:47 GMT In-Reply-To: <<837g395gp2.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98802 Archived-At: > > if you set the mark and then move left, the highlighted character is > > not in the region. >=20 > 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).