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Re: yanking a killed or saved region with a single mouse gesture
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Manoj Srivastava |
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Re: yanking a killed or saved region with a single mouse gesture |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:01:29 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) |
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:50:36 +0200, Romain Francoise <address@hidden> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> writes:
>> So mouse 2 saves, mouse 3 yanks the saved region, and holding down
>> the shift key kills instead of saves.
> In which way is this better than the default mouse commands (Mouse-1
> at start of region, single or double Mouse-3 click at the end)?
Mouse 1 sets the point, or sets a region. The gestures do not
reset point at all; they take a section of text at some other point,
and optionally yank it in. Consider the following (I am showing the
lines next to each other, but they can be in different buffers)
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
blah blah blah 1 XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX 2 yadda yadda yadda
some more text p and more yet.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The point is at p; and I hold down shit, and drag mouse 3 from
the character 1 over to the character 2. What I get is:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
blah blah blah 12 yadda yadda yadda
some more text p XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX and more yet.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Without the shift, it copies: so I get:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
blah blah blah 1 XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX 2 yadda yadda yadda
some more text p XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX and more yet.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The point does not change, no mark was set. This single gesture
with the mouse is faster than setting point with mouse 1, setting end
point with mouse 3, optionally deleting with mouse 3, finding the spot
where I need to yank the text to, and hitting mouse 2.
I often use this with different windows in the same frame.
manoj
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