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bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection |
Date: |
Fri, 20 May 2022 10:16:10 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 29889@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 04:13:09 +0200
>
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
> > Skimming the rest of the thread, the discussion was about
> > select-active-regions and whether to have it to `only' or t. It's still
> > t (which, if I understand correctly, was the problematic value).
>
> The doc string here is confusing (and wrong?)
>
> --------
> If non-nil, an active region automatically sets the primary selection.
> If the value is ‘only’, only temporarily active regions (usually made
> by mouse-dragging or shift-selection) set the window selection.
>
> This takes effect only when Transient Mark mode is enabled.
> --------
>
> "window selection" should probably be "primary selection"?
Probably what was meant is "window-system's primary selection".
> The "This" is confusing -- is it referring to `only' or to all
> non-nil values? I think it's the latter.
Yes.
> In any case, I think changing the default to `only' here would make a
> lot of sense, but on the other hand, the t value has been the default
> for a long time, so changing it now might just be too annoying.
>
> Eli, what do you think?
I have that set to 'only' long ago. What does that tell you? ;-)
- bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/05/19
- bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection, Po Lu, 2022/05/20
- bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection, Po Lu, 2022/05/20
- bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/05/20
- bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection, Po Lu, 2022/05/20
- bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/05/20
- bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/20
- bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/05/20
- bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection, Po Lu, 2022/05/20