Re: Marking with the mouse

[Kevin Rodgers]

Alex Schroeder wrote:

> 1. transient-mark-mode is nil
>
> 2. I mark a chunk of text using one of the following methods with the
>    mouse from time to time:
>
>    a. double click on a word
>    b. drag with mouse-1
>    c. click with mouse-1 and click with mouse-3
>
> 3. I then either
>
>    a. delete (double-click mouse-3)
>    b. paste (mouse-2 elsewhere)
>    c. click somewhere again using mouse-1 to make sure that the
>       position is correct, and then paste (using mouse-2 or C-y).
>
> In the first two cases, the highlighting stays, in the third case
> highlighting disappears as click around or use movement commands and
> to find the correct place where I want to paste.


I'm the original complainer Stefan mentioned, and here's my complaint:

(1) and (2) as above.  Type `C-h'.  Highlighting disappears.  Any keyboard
input -- even a prefix key! -- removes the highlighting.  Why?

If you set track-mouse (like my follow-mode.el package does), even unbound
mouse-movement events now have the same effect.


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Kevin Rodgers