From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Tobias Bading'" <tbading@web.de>
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd@gnu.org>, 11588@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11588: 24.0.97; Left mouse click setting the mark every time?!??
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 10:41:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09E008A7AE464D6684168E06E124A762@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D639673F-DE40-42C3-8EA1-26C1156F4FC9@web.de>
> Wish it was that easy. I think Chong meant a mouse movement
> by just a few pixels, not characters. At least that would
> explain perfectly my am-I-to-stupid-to-use-a-mouse-or-what
> moments. I obviously moved the mouse a pixel or two while
> clicking, resulting in a mark being set at point. C-w or M-w
> after that kills or copies an empty region. That's exactly
> what I managed to do every once in a while in Emacs 23. At
> least Emacs 24 is consistent, it never works ;-).
Yidong said, "if you move the mouse a little bit between the down and up events,
the mark gets set anyway". So it sounds like that "little-bit" setting, if only
a pixel or two, was too small. I would have guessed (incorrectly) that it would
have been at least half of a char-width.
But as I said, the best thing in a case like this, where different users would
anyway want/need different tolerances, would be to provide a user setting
(option) for the slop movement between down and up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-30 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-30 13:58 bug#11588: 24.0.97; Left mouse click setting the mark every time?!?? Tobias Bading
2012-05-30 14:15 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-30 15:30 ` Tobias Bading
2012-05-30 15:45 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-30 16:33 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-30 16:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-30 16:51 ` Tobias Bading
2012-05-30 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-30 17:26 ` Tobias Bading
2012-05-30 17:41 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-05-30 18:10 ` Tobias Bading
2012-05-30 18:23 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-30 18:52 ` Tobias Bading
2012-05-30 20:15 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1963.1338398856.855.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-24 7:51 ` dove.young
2012-06-24 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-30 16:44 ` Tobias Bading
2012-06-13 15:29 ` Chong Yidong
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