GNU bug report logs - #32578
Remove "joke" from drag events documentation

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Message #26 received at 32578 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Chris Shea <cmshea <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 32578 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32578: Remove "joke" from drag events documentation
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 01:57:01 +0300

> Good gracious, this isn't even a good joke. What if this patch changed the
> joke to something better? "A @dfn{drag event} happens every time the user
> presses a mouse button and then moves the mouse to a different character
> position before releasing the button. While that should never happen in
> practice, you may find it necessary to react to such events to remind the
> user that no true Emacs operator even owns a mouse."

Reminds me an illustration in an old book depicting a terminal with
an attached mouse and titled "workstation of a mouse operator"
where a mouse operator implied a profession  :-)

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