From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David McKelvie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Differences between mouse selection and scrolling between v23 and v24 Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 17:38:37 +0100 Message-ID: <87eg9h6anm.fsf@interactive.co.uk> Reply-To: dmck@interactive.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462382032 17352 80.91.229.3 (4 May 2016 17:13:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 17:13:52 +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 04 19:13:43 2016 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 1ay0Mp-0001Cb-8K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2016 19:13:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ay0Mk-0007Zh-VC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2016 13:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41025) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axzpL-0002QH-RV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2016 12:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axzp8-0006Ep-VJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2016 12:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from iivm5-1.interactive.co.uk ([185.20.52.203]:57957 helo=aruna.interactive.co.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axzp8-000666-QZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2016 12:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from son-of-tbb (cpc72065-sgyl27-2-0-cust572.18-2.cable.virginm.net [80.6.22.61]) by aruna.interactive.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91EE13806C for ; Wed, 4 May 2016 17:38:37 +0100 (BST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 185.20.52.203 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 04 May 2016 13:13:27 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109875 Archived-At: Ive noticed a difference between Emacs 23 and version 24 in a way that affects how I work with Emacs and would like to know how to get the emacs 23 behaviour back in Emacs version 24. The issue is a difference in how mouse selection and scrolling interact. Suppose I have a file which is longer than will fit in a window. In Emacs 23, I can select the first three lines of the file, selecting using the mouse (drag out three lines using left mouse button). These three line are highlighted in yellow. Then I scroll the window down to the bottom, again using the mouse and the RHS scroll bar. Then I click at the bottom of the file and then paste the three lines from the top using the middle mouse button. Only those three lines of text are pasted at he bottom of the file. In Emacs 24 When I do the same, ie select top three lines and scroll to bottom and paste using middle button, then I get the whole of the file pasted in at the bottom, not just the three selected lines. The same annoying thing happens if I split the frame and have two windows both looking at the same file. Select the top three lines in frame 1 and then moving mouse to frame 2 extends the selection to where the cursor is. These tests were run on Ubuntu 14.04 Linux 4.2.0-35-generic #40~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 16:37:35 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux With emacs versions GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.21) of 2013-10-25 on allspice, modified by Debian GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7) of 2014-03-07 on lamiak, modified by Debian Both versions of emacs were using the same .emacs file. So, is there some configuration variable I can set that will re-instate the 23 behaviour in 24? Thanks, David