From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mouse cut moves point Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:28:13 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357259411 5594 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2013 00:30:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 00:30:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 04 01:30:28 2013 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 1TqvB5-0003RV-Ai for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:30:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60211 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqvAq-0005tt-4x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:30:12 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="78fb7125a45724f15e21604c94a7d968"; logging-data="1627"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18pg4/hK6SmvlRZYm6VCc2s" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mclMG5x/vIacyF7MrGDREldChSc= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196118 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:88426 Archived-At: In article , Bob Proulx wrote: > In emacs running as a graphics window the act of cutting text moves > the point. Typing in text and then using the mouse to cut and paste > means also needing to tediously move the point back to where I was > typing (before the cut action) so that I can paste it. > > Is there a way to configure emacs under X so that cutting text with a > mouse drag does not move the point? > > This is something that has always been this way. It has not ever > changed as far as I know. But it has always been inconvenient. I had > such excellent luck with my last question that I decided it was time > to ask this related question too. :-) Emacs's model of marking text is that the region is the area between the mark and point. So it's not possible to mark a region without setting point to one end of it. But isn't this also how most GUI text editors and word processors work? When you swipe an area of text the insertion point disappears. But if you cut and then start typing, you'll see that it has moved to where the marked text was. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***