Subject: Re: bug#34014: 25.2; binding down mouse event with modifier to mouse-drag-region does not work

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 07:34:00 -0700

Adolf Mathias <[email-masked]> writes:

> The function allows a workflow that I know from the SunOS Textedit
> from the late 1980s. Your cursor is somewhere in the text, you drag
> out a region in the same window/buffer or another one, and the text
> that you selected gets copied to your cursor at mouse button release,
> without having to reposition your cursor.

Does the following cover your use case?

  (setq mouse-drag-copy-region t)

Alternatively:

   M-x customize-option RET mouse-drag-copy-region RET

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas