From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arni Magnusson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7015: Documentation of `mouse-drag-copy-region' Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:41:00 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284246646 5179 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2010 23:10:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:10:46 +0000 (UTC) To: 7015@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 12 01:10:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1OuZDY-00010i-8J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:10:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuZDX-0000fY-DX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuYkx-0005mm-9t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:41:12 -0400 Original-Received: from hafgarpur.hafro.is ([130.208.64.48]:57741) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuYkw-0005lh-UG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:41:11 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at hafro.is Original-Received: from hafstormur.hafro.is (hafstormur [130.208.66.52]) by hafgarpur.hafro.is (8.14.2/8.14.2/hafro-2.46) with ESMTP id o8BMf1L6012063 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:41:01 GMT Original-Received: from hafstormur.hafro.is (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hafstormur.hafro.is (8.14.3/8.14.3/hafro-1.6) with ESMTP id o8BMf18P008258 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:41:01 GMT Original-Received: from localhost (arnima@localhost) by hafstormur.hafro.is (8.14.3/8.14.3/hafro-0.3) with ESMTP id o8BMf09A008253 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:41:01 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: hafstormur.hafro.is: arnima owned process doing -bs User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:40:03 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:40102 Archived-At: Today I discovered that selecting a region with the mouse automatically copies the region, altering the kill ring. I guess I don't use the mouse much, but I was expecting mouse dragging to select passively like shift arrows. It took me a few minutes to find the simplest way to disable this behavior, by setting the `mouse-drag-copy-region' variable to nil. I suggest the `mouse-drag-copy-region' variable should be cross-referenced in the `mouse-set-region' docstring, to shorten the path of discovery. Then it would only take C-h k drag-mouse-1 to find out about this variable. Cheers, Arni