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bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry
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Stephen Berman |
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bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:04:43 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:48:12 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, 23478@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 18:22:42 +0200
>>
>> What do you understand by "selection backward"?
>
> mouse-select-region-backward can be interpreted as "mouse selects
> region backward".
I still don't get it, but I'll drop it.
>> My intention was to indicate that this variable controls selecting
>> the region when you double-click at region-end
>
> But "region-end" doesn't appear in the name.
>
> How about mouse-select-region-at-region-end ?
This sounds a bit convoluted and also not so clear to me; how about
referring to the action instead of the result:
mouse-double-click-at-region-end ?
>> >> One somewhat embarassing aspect of describing this option is that is
>> >> makes the default asymmetrical behavior painfully obvious without
>> >> providing a rationale for it (and I don't know of any). I suppose we
>> >> could add "for historical reasons" after "by default"....
>> >
>> > I don't think it's needed: since point doesn't move, no scrolling
>> > should be expected.
>>
>> What's not needed: the phrase "for historical reasons", a rationale for
>> the asymmetrical behavior, or any description of the user option? In
>> other words, are you saying the doc changes in the patch are acceptable?
>
> The rationale is not needed, IMO.
Ok.
Steve Berman
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, (continued)
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, Stephen Berman, 2016/07/07
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/07
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, Stephen Berman, 2016/07/07
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/07
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, Noam Postavsky, 2016/07/07
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/07
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, Stephen Berman, 2016/07/07
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, Stephen Berman, 2016/07/08
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/08
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, Stephen Berman, 2016/07/08
- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry,
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- bug#23478: 25.0.93; Mouse region selection asymmetry, npostavs, 2016/07/04