From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Selection threshold with mouse Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 10:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20140719.173203.1998048028110686770.tak.kunihiro@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405791139 30921 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2014 17:32:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:32:19 +0000 (UTC) To: Tak Kunihiro , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 19 19:32:12 2014 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 1X8YUV-0002fG-QY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:32:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55134 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8YUV-0002jj-Fb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:32:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45525) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8YUB-0002Yg-Ht for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8YU2-0001wh-9d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:31:51 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:39150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8YU1-0001wU-BS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s6JHVcNw025364 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:31:39 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s6JHVbGn006195 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:31:37 GMT Original-Received: from ubhmt120.oracle.com (ubhmt120.oracle.com [156.151.24.25]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s6JHVa19003691; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:31:37 GMT In-Reply-To: <20140719.173203.1998048028110686770.tak.kunihiro@gmail.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:98793 Archived-At: > When I set region using mouse from left to right, region expands at > very end of each character. Is it possible to set to threshold to the > middle of a character instead of very end of a character? Not too sure what you mean, but the region (selection) is the sequence of characters between two buffer positions (point and mark). Emacs buffer positions are always between characters (or before the first character or after the last character). They are never "on" a character.