Re: mouse-drag-and-drop-region

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I very clearly vote in favor of set-transient-map, since the use
>> read-event leads inevitably to lots of corner case problems that are in
>> general impossible to fix.
> Actually, this boils down to marking `track-mouse' obsolete in a not so
> distant future.

You mean the special-form, right?  Because the variable is still very
much needed.  Yes, for me we can mark it obsolete.

> Additionally, `mouse-drag-track' should be renamed once
> more - to something like `mouse-drag-within-window' - the distinguishing
> factor being that all events are interpreted relative to the window of
> the starting event.  And we should provide a `mouse-drag-anywhere'
> function which, among others, does not auto scroll the window of the
> starting event.  Hence `mouse-drag-and-drop-region' could use the latter.

Actually, maybe mouse-drag-and-drop-region could also make use of
a generalized version of mouse-drag-track.


        Stefan