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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Message #20 received at 38013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38013: [PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 14:23:03 +0100

9> Competing mouse bindings are:
>
> Meta: secondary selection

The meta combinations are bound to the secondary selection in a very
elaborate fashion and should be left alone.

> Shift: mouse-appearance-menu (mouse-save-then-kill for NS)
> Control: mouse-buffer-menu

I have no idea why these are bound to down events in the first place.
I would reserve S-down-mouse-1 for extending an existing selection and
provide C-down-mouse-1 for rectangular selection.  Some programs allow
C-down-mouse-1 to provide non-contiguous selections which we then
could accommodate easily by checking initially whether a selection is
already active.

> B. Combined modifiers (Shift-Meta etc). Less ergonomic; there may be platform restrictions.

I'd consider these as viable alternatives.

martin
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