Re: mouse-drag-and-drop-region

[martin rudalics]

> I imagine that this has to do with inputting a non-mouse-movement event
> before moving the mouse at all. If you use your change and press "C-g"
> before moving the mouse, then the region will still be pasted.
>
> Doing the above without your change currently results in an error due to
> `insert' using a nil `value-selection', though.  So it's faulty either
> way.

I'm missing you.  Doesn't C-g deactivate the mark?

>> (3) Showing tooltips can be distracting and should be optional.  Note
>>      also, that usurping tooltips this way may prevent them from showing
>>      interesting properties of the drop area like whether the text there
>>      is read only.  OTOH we might consider retaining properties of the
>>      text in (non-GTK) tooltips.
>
> Also, trying to use `tooltip-show' in text-terminals using
> `xterm-mouse-mode' yields a lot of "Error while displaying tooltip"
> messages.

That's a plain bug.  ‘tooltip-show’ on a text terminal must use the echo
area.

> Perhaps (3) should be fixed before release as well (at least disabling
> tooltips when they can't be shown)?

Sure.

martin