Subject: bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 14:11:09 +0200

Po Lu <[email-masked]> writes:

> Programmatically, via JavaScript:
>
>   window.getSelection ().modify ("extend", "forward", "character");

I don't think we have to care about that a lot...

> or shift-selection.

I tried `C-a' and the `S-<left>' and stuff in Firefox, but nothing seems
to be happening...

> The point is, whatever is displayed in the region
> face must be sent to requestors asking for the primary selection.  We
> should not invent distinctions between shift-selection, mouse dragging,
> and cursor movement.

But we do that already -- that's what `open' is about.

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