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: select text without moving the point in graphical interface Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:17:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <<20131208190052.GA12293@doriath.local> <86de73d1-d8e2-4564-b7a7-749d7778a635@default> <20131208193420.GA12537@doriath.local> <20131208204158.GA12709@doriath.local> > <<83fvq2znym.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 1386566306 25168 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2013 05:18:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 05:18:26 +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 Mon Dec 09 06:18:30 2013 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 1VptEk-0005N9-HM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 06:18:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VptEj-0001v1-Pf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:18:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60366) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VptES-0001ut-CO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:18:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VptEJ-00010V-QS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:18:12 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:44280) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VptEA-0000oF-QQ; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:17:54 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id rB95Hrq7028819 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 9 Dec 2013 05:17:54 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rB95HqYk000431 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 9 Dec 2013 05:17:53 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0020.oracle.com (abhmp0020.oracle.com [141.146.116.26]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rB95Hqxg009644; Mon, 9 Dec 2013 05:17:52 GMT In-Reply-To: <<83fvq2znym.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:94889 Archived-At: > > In terminal mode, Emacs does not even recognize the mouse, in the > > sense that if you do `C-h k' and then click or drag the mouse, that > > action is unrecognized. >=20 > That's largely false, at least on most GNU/Linux systems and on > MS-Windows: the mouse is supported in text mode as well. And on > xterm, we have xt-mouse for the same purpose. I see; I stand corrected. At least with `emacs -Q -nw' on MS Windows 7, for me, `C-h k' does not seem to recognize any mouse actions. But I should not have generalized. Thanks for the correction. It seems that I also misunderstood the request. See Bob's message. Perhaps you have an answer for the real request, as well?