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bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:10:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 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?
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