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23.0.60; docview set slice when avoidance mode active

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; docview set slice when avoidance mode active
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:39:51 -0500

Selecting from menu-bar > DocView > Set Slice ;;;doc-view-set-slice-using-mouse
I am unable to freely move the mouse over the doc to set x & y for slice.
Mouse keeps jumping back to the right fringe per avoidance settings.
*BUT* if i move across the top of the menubar and/or *very* rapidly
move the mouse to left fringe I can get a few moments of mouse trigger
time before mouse re-banishes to right.

This is not intuitive behavior. If possible, when avoidance mode is
active the menu option should not be available and/or avoidance should
be temporarily overidden when doc-view-set-slice-using-mouse has been
invoked.
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In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2009-01-28
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
configured using `configure  '--with-jpeg=no''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  size-indication-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Mouse Avoidance Mode: banish
Mouse Avoidance Nudge Dist: 15
Mouse Avoidance Threshold: 5

Message #10 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo <at> member.fsf.org>
To: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
Cc: 2149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2149: 23.0.60; docview set slice when avoidance mode active
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:21:18 +0100

MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com> writes:

Hi!

> Selecting from menu-bar > DocView > Set Slice
> ;;;doc-view-set-slice-using-mouse I am unable to freely move the mouse
> over the doc to set x & y for slice.  Mouse keeps jumping back to the
> right fringe per avoidance settings.  *BUT* if i move across the top
> of the menubar and/or *very* rapidly move the mouse to left fringe I
> can get a few moments of mouse trigger time before mouse re-banishes
> to right.
>
> This is not intuitive behavior.  If possible, when avoidance mode is
> active the menu option should not be available and/or avoidance should
> be temporarily overidden when doc-view-set-slice-using-mouse has been
> invoked.

Which avoidance setting do you use?  I tried animate, but the behavior
is not as frustrating as you say.

The problem with mouse-avoidance-mode is that it's a global minor mode,
so disabling it only for doc-view buffers doesn't work.  I could
deactivate it temporally while slicing with the mouse, but that doesn't
help much and works only around the real problem:

  mouse-avoidance-mode makes no sense and is irritating in buffers where
  point isn't visible like image-mode or doc-view.

Bye,
Tassilo

Message #22 received at 2149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo <at> member.fsf.org>
Cc: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>, 2149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2149: 23.0.60; docview set slice when avoidance mode active
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:10:25 +0200

Tassilo Horn <tassilo <at> member.fsf.org> writes:

> Which avoidance setting do you use?  I tried animate, but the behavior
> is not as frustrating as you say.

More information was requested two years ago, but was apparently not
given, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the bug is still present,
please reopen this report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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