From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: move selection by dragging it with the middle mouse button? Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:33:26 -0400 Message-ID: <87egnmty1l.fsf@yale.edu> References: <50f87d47-56b9-49e5-9ff3-948c2e90d15a@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429032864 3124 80.91.229.3 (14 Apr 2015 17:34:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:34:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 14 19:34:17 2015 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 1Yi4j2-0004MW-Iw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:34:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57316 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi4j1-0006NC-Tx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59773) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi4ia-000618-4S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi4iW-0004m1-VO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:33:48 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi4iW-0004kU-HT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:33:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi4iO-00041J-Us for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:33:37 +0200 Original-Received: from nat-130-132-173-151.central.yale.edu ([130.132.173.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:33:36 +0200 Original-Received: from jorge.alfaro-murillo by nat-130-132-173-151.central.yale.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:33:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nat-130-132-173-151.central.yale.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QV6BVXS6XbHhyb1ISr7tf9HoqBA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:103718 Archived-At: jarausch@skynet.be writes: > With my previous editor I could select some text (e.g. by > dragging the left mouse button) and then by clicking and > dragging with the middle mouse button I could move the selected > text around. > > Is this possible with Emacs and how? No need for dragging, it is very slow. Better left click at the beginning of the region you want to move, right click twice at the end of the region. Middle click where you want to move the text to. Or even faster avoid the mouse, by the time you got your hand to the mouse and found the cursor in the screen, you could have C-, do a search with C-s, C-w, another search with C-s or C-r, and C-y =) Best, -- Jorge.