Re: Improving X selection?

[Jan D.]

David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> On 02/02/2008, David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> > (Some mouse.el interactions need additional options too I think - yet
> > another mail to follow with them...)
>
> See attached patch (n.b. depends on previously sent patch
> "enhanced-x-selection.diff", guess l should do an aggregate patch with
> all proposed stuff...)
>
> Goal here was mouse behaviour that fits in nicely with
> select-active-regions, three main issues (one for each button as it
> happens...):
>
>
> *** 1. mouse-set-point vs. select-active-regions issue:
>
> Add a deactivate-mark in mouse-set-point: This prevents copying
> different text than expected to primary when select-active-regions is
> true and you mouse-1 click to move the point (otherwise it ends up
> setting the X11 selection to the region between the mark and new place
> you clicked, which is not right).
>
> However blindly deactivating the mark when the mouse is used to set
> the point may be a bit too heavy-handed/sweeping, there may be
> subtleties I haven't spotted?

Are you saying that one can't set mark, move the point with the mouse 
and then do stuff like M-w, C-x C-x anymore?  If so, I think that is 
totally unacceptable, it makes mouse-set-point almost unusable.

        Jan D.