From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allin Cottrell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: fringe and mouse in emacs 22.1 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:51:04 -0400 Organization: Wake Forest University Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192685067 19123 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2007 05:24:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:24:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 18 07:24:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IiNrv-000429-64 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:24:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IiNrn-0000Lw-Td for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:24:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!elk.ncren.net!news.wfu.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: waverley.dhcp.wfu.edu Original-X-Trace: f4n35.wfunet.wfu.edu 1192639901 30049 10.112.0.67 (17 Oct 2007 16:51:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@wfu.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:51:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153000 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:20:17 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48519 Archived-At: I recently updated from emacs 21.4 to 22.1. There's one change I don't like and I'm wondering if I can revert it via ~/.emacs somehow. That is (a) I like having a non-zero fringe, but (b) I don't like the way the mouse pointer behaves differently in the fringe in 22.1. I'm mostly editing C source and TeX files, and I want to be able to select lines of text with a mouse drag. This was easy in 21.4, but now I find I have to be very particular about the initial pointer position to do this: too far to the left and I'm into the fringe, where mouse-down-plus-motion does not initiate drag-selection (the mouse just swipes uselessly); too far to the right and I miss the first character(s) on the line. So what I'd like to do is enforce the old behavior: in the left fringe, mouse-down-plus-motion starts drag-selection. Thanks for any suggestions. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC