bug#9186: patch for buggy drag behavior affecting emacs >=23

[Andrew Schein]

This is a resend, since my patch appears mangled in the archives.  I
am attaching the patch this time.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Andrew Schein <andrew@andrewschein.com> wrote:
> Below is my fix to bug#9186.  I located the area of the C code that
> deals with recording click events and noticed that there is logic that
> looks for extremely precise pixel placement rather than buffer
> position.  In my opinion this leads to unexpected behavior; humans can not
> move their hands so precisely as they can reliably move their mouse to
> the area defined by fuzz.  On the other hand, there are plenty of cues
> to indicate when the mouse is placed back into the original position.
>
> In proposing this fix I am a a little concerned about how the overall
> system will be effected.  Why was this click_fuzz logic introduced to
> begin with?
>



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Andrew I. Schein
www.andrewschein.com

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