From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asac Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does gnu emacs have the equivalent of Xemacs mouse-track-insert Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <413dd07f-52c3-40f3-b083-031ad862ab08@q15g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <87pr39efou.fsf@ergodik.univ-brest.fr> <87sk8586ss.fsf@rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273054716 22289 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 10:18:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 10:18:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 12:18:34 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9bgW-0004bf-CP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 12:18:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9bgV-0006Dd-Kz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 06:18:31 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a18g2000yqc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.60.11 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1268646617 12362 127.0.0.1 (15 Mar 2010 09:50:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a18g2000yqc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.91.60.11; posting-account=0yZsqAoAAABV2gvqADbqWfaNv5efC3Gs User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 proxyeu02 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.5) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100202 Firefox/3.5.8 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177468 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:46:44 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73349 Archived-At: On Mar 13, 12:21=A0am, Tim X wrote: > harven writes: > >>> 2. On my linux host, somehow (keyboard shortcut settings?), so the M- > >>> leftclick selects the window that I am working on, so when sliding, > >>> the window is getting moved instead of selcting the text on which I > >>> slide the mouse. > > >> It's working OK here (i.e. =A0M-click does not change the window). Wha= t > >> version of emacs are you using? > > >>> 3. So I tested with ESC-leftclick and this partially works when emacs > >>> is invoked with -nw, but it does not work in the window based. > >> (...) > > >> Strange. Sorry, no idea what's =A0wrong with your installment. At leas= t > >> I can =A0tell you mine =A0seems to be =A0working correctly, so try =A0= to play > >> around with your settings. > > > There is nothing wrong with his installation. M-leftclick is intercepte= d > > by his window manager. This is a standard shortcut in metacity for movi= ng a > > window. This can be disabled with the gconf-editor, in apps>metacity>ge= neral > > item mouse_button_modifier. > > Or just use system -> preferences -> keyboard shortcuts > > There are a number of 'default' gnome keyboard shortcuts I get rid of > because they either interfere or use valuable mappings I like to use for > emacs, such as alt-tab, some of the function keys and a few others. > Using the GUI interface, its quite easy to replace any WM shortcuts you > want to keep with some of the rarely used keys that are less likely to > interfere with emacs, such as super/hyper (those 'extra' keys usually > between Ctl and Alt, often with a windows logo etc). > > Tim > > -- > tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au Many thanks to all for the suggestions. Your answers are going faster than my tests. I will try test and come back with results.