Re: mouse-drag-and-drop-region

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:48:44 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> That's what I meant.  Now `mouse-drag-track' does two essential things:
> It sets `track-mouse' to non-nil so mouse movement creates input events
> and it uses a transient keymap to process them.  However, an application
> that wants to look into an event and postpone it via "unreading" it, is
> still able to do so, right?  So the only difference to using the
> `track-mouse' macro is that the transient keymap approach obfuscates the
> underlying event reading mechanism and thus does not overtly invite the
> application to unread events.  Is that interpretation correct?

I think so, but I'm not an expert on this stuff.