From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Perry Wagle <wagle@mac.com>
Cc: 7787@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7787: 23.2; wrong meaning for mouse-2 while in search mode
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:24:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo9s1q0y.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4433B297-FA8A-4172-8CAF-9E9C65760116@mac.com> (Perry Wagle's message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:05:10 -0800")
Perry Wagle <wagle@mac.com> writes:
> In xemacs, if I double click on a word, the word is highlighted. If
> I then press control-s for search, and click the middle mouse button
> *without moving the mouse*, I will paste that word into the search
> string, and all is good.
>
> Emacs, on the other hand, does not support this idiom. For some
> reason, the middle mouse button *ABORTS* the search mode, and then
> pastes the word under the mouse. Why would you want that?
>
> This idiom alone has kept me using xemacs for over a decade. I'd
> like to switch to emacs now.
>
> Can I fix this easily with option-setting, or does it require me to
> hack and add the correct behavior?
This was reported 9 years ago but unfortunately never got a reply at
the time.
I think you should set mouse-yank-at-point to t to get the desired
behaviour. Could you please try that and see if that works for your
use-case?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-15 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-05 6:05 bug#7787: 23.2; wrong meaning for mouse-2 while in search mode Perry Wagle
2020-01-15 19:24 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-01-15 20:03 ` Perry Wagle via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-01-15 20:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-15 21:06 ` Perry Wagle via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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[not found] ` <64FCE389-3139-4011-B06A-F8C220CCDBC9@mac.com>
[not found] ` <87v9pa1wyr.fsf@marxist.se>
[not found] ` <9FEB6215-55A1-443E-A5E8-330937AA4000@mac.com>
[not found] ` <20FA9FFB-A13D-4814-BB47-75F1CF1B9519@mac.com>
2020-01-20 0:07 ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-20 3:26 ` Perry Wagle via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-01-29 0:05 ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-12 21:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-12 23:53 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-17 12:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-18 19:12 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-18 19:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-20 7:39 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-20 10:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-20 17:16 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-21 11:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-21 16:01 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-21 18:14 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-22 11:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-24 15:49 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-24 15:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-24 15:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-25 15:38 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-26 9:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-26 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-26 15:32 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-27 12:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-27 12:21 ` Robert Pluim
2022-04-27 14:44 ` Drew Adams
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