GNU bug report logs - #38013
[PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:11:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, 38013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#38013: [PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:30:56 +0200

> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 08:08:32 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: 38013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> 
> > Of course rectangular selection should have a binding by default. This
> > is not controversial in the slightest.
> 
> Count me as one user who disagrees that this deserves
> a default binding.

A command that needs to drag the mouse makes no sense without a
binding to some mouse gesture.

> Eli suggested defining a minor mode, as does CUA.

I suggested a minor mode as a way to allow us using the same binding
as used for another command by default.  I did NOT suggest to have a
minor mode _instead_ of a binding.
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