Re: mouse-drag-and-drop-region

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alex <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 15:58:17 -0600
> 
> >> This will only message on the first mouse-movement event (after a
> >> non-mouse-movement event), and after moving to a new character position.
> >
> > That's the intended behavior, see note_mouse_movement.
> 
> Thanks for pointing me to it.  I can understand the intention, but I
> think it would be useful to be able to track the mouse with every pixel
> change in addition to the current behaviour.  On topic, it should make
> dragging the tooltip a lot smoother.

Does it, indeed?  Did you try that?

> Would such a feature be considered?

What other uses would it have except this one (assuming it helps
there)?  It will certainly flood Emacs with input events, the question
is: is that justified?

> >> It also messages after a down-click, which feels like a bug.
> >
> > Not here, it doesn't.  I only see a message after a movement to
> > another glyph.
> 
> That's odd, you can't reproduce it at all?

No.

> On my end, I sometimes have to click a few times (sometimes slowly)
> before an erroneous message appears.

GTK issue again, perhaps?