From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dragging to resize windows Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:29:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4D79F99A.4080009@gmx.at> References: 87aah9117r.fsf@S0106001636ac5854.work <4D79D9A8.2070202@gmx.at> <07E019B5-FF82-471C-ABD4-54A6C954FA2F@Web.DE> <4D79F0EF.7060403@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299839472 12307 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2011 10:31:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:31:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, smclean0640@gmail.com To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 11:31:07 2011 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 1Pxzcg-0001BD-Tg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:31:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44794 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxzcS-0002CH-DL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:30:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49559 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pxzbe-0002A1-6I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pxzbc-0007lI-Lq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:30:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:52840) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pxzbc-0007ky-9b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2011 10:29:58 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-42-56.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.42.56]) [62.47.42.56] by mail.gmx.net (mp064) with SMTP; 11 Mar 2011 11:29:58 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+ld0g2PZKl52aGred33SGu8zr/duuEEwo7Au3qJb LvOo/w+tqkIVTh User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 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:79969 Archived-At: >> This never happens here so it might be platform specific. Does modeline >> text get highlighted immediately when the mouse hovers over it? > > No. The mode-line changes its look depending on whether the buffer it > belongs to is active (receives input/has the active cursor) or not. I meant the modeline text, for example, the background of the buffer name or the major mode. Does it get highlighted immediately when the mouse is there? >> Or do you mean that Emacs tries to figure out whether you really want >> to drag >> the modeline and not do something else? > > This is my impression. Here I don't get any visual feedback in terms of a vertical "<-|->" but I can drag immediately. >> Does the behavior differ according to the modeline text portion >> displayed at the mouse position? > > > Of course! On some portions a text window pops up, on other portions a > pointing hand like cursor is established (load average, major-mode, > buffer name,...), But you don't talk about dragging there, I suppose. > on others one with an upward pointing black triangle > with a vertical equals sign and a downward pointing black triangle at > the bottom. This cursor obviously tells that dragging can now happen, > but this change of the cursor's shape is sometimes delayed. Caused by > high system load. So the delay happens before these triangles show up. But have you tried to drag before they show up? Because, as I said before, they never show up here anyway. martin