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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 6174@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:32:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvliweesq5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3oc1cw4nl.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:10:06 +0200")

>> From what I could gather by experimenting, 99.99% of the behavior that
>> is documented is already the mouse behavior in Emacs, that is, with
>> mouse-sel-mode turned off.
>> 
>> AFAICT, the only real difference is that when the mode is turned on the
>> selection is not copied to the kill-ring.  The kill-ring is unaffected,
>> except if you do some specific extra things.

> [...]

>> If I had to guess, I'd guess that this doc has never been updated since
>> Emacs itself adopted the same selection behavior.  And that was eons
>> ago.  IOW, maybe mouse-sel-mode was just the first code to provide such
>> behavior - dunno.

> Yes, looking at the documentation, I think that's right.

> Perhaps mouse-sel-mode should be marked as deprecated?

Probably.  Let's do that for Emacs-24.2.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-04  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-11 20:05 bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading Drew Adams
2011-07-03  1:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-04  1:32   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-07-04 12:20     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-05  0:21       ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-05 13:51         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06  2:48           ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 16:56             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 20:36               ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-07-07 20:38                 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-07 20:55                   ` New tag(s) for debbugs.gnu.org? [was Re: bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading] Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 16:56             ` bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-10  2:31     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-11  7:07       ` Chong Yidong

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