[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:32:30 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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
- bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/07/02
- bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading,
Stefan Monnier <=
- bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/07/04
- bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading, Glenn Morris, 2011/07/04
- bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/07/05
- bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading, Glenn Morris, 2011/07/05
- bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/07/06
- bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading, Michael Welsh Duggan, 2011/07/06
- bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading, Stefan Monnier, 2011/07/07