From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Marking with the mouse Date: 11 Sep 2003 16:41:38 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063313250 11523 80.91.224.253 (11 Sep 2003 20:47:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 11 22:47:28 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19xYLg-0005Kk-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:47:28 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19xYMf-0006NG-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:48:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19xYIU-0003ee-JC for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xYHX-0003Ob-U7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xYGB-0002op-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:41:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19xYG6-0002lm-Kn; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:41:42 -0400 Original-Received: from noir.iro.umontreal.ca (noir.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.236]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8BKfeHD012914; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by noir.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h8BKfdRc007983; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:41:39 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-MailScanner-DIRO: Found to be clean X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16307 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16307 > Someone in gnu.emacs.help recently complained about the weird behavior > of the highlighting when you drag the mouse while pressing mouse-1: > the selected text is highlighted during the drag but the highlighting > disappears immediately after that. I was thinking that maybe it's > a good idea to use the transient transient-mark-mode in this case, so > that marking with the mouse always behaves like transient-mark-mode. > That is an interesting idea. Could you install it with a variable to > control it, so that people could try it out, and we could decide later > on whether to make this change the default? I'm not sure this is worth an option. Stefan