From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion for mouse-based cut/copy/yank
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:41:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ejiv83m5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IE6gt-0006Yg-CS@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 26 Jul 2007 12\:59\:55 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> However, when yanking with a click, material is yanked right at point
> rather than at the start of line.
>
> That is a nuisance. So I think it would be nice to store the
> "granularity" of a mouse click/mark away and use it to move to begin
> of word/line before yanking.
>
> I think that would be a bug.
Intentional behavior is never a bug. It may at worst be stupid or
annoying.
> You can change this yourself, but I don't think we should change
> Emacs' normal behavior.
So it would be ok to provide this as an optional feature?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-26 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-26 13:09 Suggestion for mouse-based cut/copy/yank David Kastrup
2007-07-26 16:04 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-26 17:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-26 16:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-26 17:41 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-07-27 5:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-27 5:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-27 6:37 ` Stefan Monnier
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