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bug#5180: 23.1.90; Secondary selection and M-w
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#5180: 23.1.90; Secondary selection and M-w |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:53:40 -0800 |
I never noticed it before, but I can confirm that it happens, but only if the
the Meta key is pressed before releasing the mouse button.
> If often use mouse to select a piece of text and then hit M-w to copy
> it. However, this is frequently hijacked by mouse-drag-secondary.
>
> To reproduce:
> 1. Drag the mouse to select some text
> 2. Stop dragging and (after a short delay) hit the Meta (as
> in M-w) key
>
> The region will be turned into a secondary selection defeating the
> effect of M-w, for example.
>
> I have found this annoying and I wonder how to fix it without
> disabling all secondary selection bindings.