RE: Emacs Explorer?

[Drew Adams]

I *hope* I can turn it off.

I understand that some folks like dragging text around within a buffer, but
I wonder how much their use of that "feature" is just habit from using
systems that don't have the mouse functions provided by Emacs.

Those of you who use Emacs and also drag text: What is the advantage? Since
the region is automatically copied to the kill-buffer, and an MB3 click
kills it, and an MB2 click pastes it elsewhere, how could dragging be easier
(than MB1332 or MB1drag32)?  I don't get it.

Again, nothing against your adding it for those who like it - 'long as I can
turn it off.

  - Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Rumney [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:16 AM
To: Jan D.
Cc: Miles Bader; address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Emacs Explorer?


Jan D. wrote:

>> To tell the truth, I hate the D&D-by-dragging-selected-text
>> behavior of other apps (in particular, mozilla), because it's damn
>> touchy -- often I'll try to click to make the selected region
>> collapse, but accidentally drag a _little bit_, which ends up
>> invoking the D&D behavior...
>
> I get bitten by this sometimes also.  It is important that the amount
>  of drag is customizable.  Usually it is not.

I'd say its more important that this type of D&D can be turned off.
Either people are used to doing things this way, with all its faults,
or they are not, and don't want this feature.

> This is probably the reason why Motif/CDE uses mouse-2 to drag.  No
> risk of starting a drag when an ordinary click with mouse-1 was
> intended.

We could adopt that convention, but then it would only work within
Emacs, at least on Windows and I presume GTK, Qt and Mac, since the
system idea of dragging would be different than Emacs idea.