Re: transient-mark-mode in 22.0

[JD Smith]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 18:37 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     It *could* be that this is a bug introduced when mouse-show-mark was
>     rearranged, and what was intended was really:
> 
>       (if transient-mark-mode
>           (delete-overlay mouse-drag-overlay)
>         (move-overlay mouse-drag-overlay (point) (mark t))
> 
> I recall making that change intentionally, and the change log entry
> confirms it.
> 
> I did this to fix a bug.  I don't remember what bug, but It may have
> had to do with the new features that temporarily enable
> transient-mark-mode.
> 
> So I guess you're out of luck on this one.

So does anyone besides me see it as a problem that mouse-drag-region
does not return when the mouse drag is complete, but instead requires
yet another event of some kind (any kind) after the mouse-up to let it
return?  Is that not a new bug?  That functionality was really what was
behind my use of transient-mark-mode.

If that's really now an impossibility, can anyone recommend another
method to allow a region to be mouse-dragged with highlighting, and a
menu popped up upon drag completion?

JD