Subject: Re: bug#11588: 24.0.97; Left mouse click setting the mark every time?!??

From: Tobias Bading <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 18:51:15 +0200

On 30.05.2012, at 18:42, Drew Adams wrote:
>> OK, now I see what you mean.
>> 
>> The old mouse dragging code had a special behavior to pop the mark if
>> you did not move the mouse much after the down event, to avoid setting
>> the mark (this did not work reliably; if you move the mouse a little bit
>> between the down and up events, the mark gets set anyway).  
>> I'll see if there is a way to get this to work with the new code, but it
>> won't be for the 24.1 release.
> 
> Why not?  The "old" behavior was the behavior forever, and for a reason.
> 
> Why release with the regression?  What's the hurry?
> 
> Why not restore the old code, and move the "new" to 24.2 and fix it there,
> taking as much time as you like to get it right?

The bug in Emacs 23 caused by a slight mouse movement between mouse down and up events that Chong described is quite bad IMHO. Probably worse than a mouse click setting the mark every time. Please don't put that bug back in :-).

Tobias