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

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 38013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38013: [PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 21:18:20 +0100

4 nov. 2019 kl. 19.27 skrev martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>:

> If you bind it to the control key you should at least be able to pop
> up the buffer menu yourself if the up event occurs at the same
> position as the down event.
> 
> But here I can simply do
> 
> (global-set-key [C-down-mouse-1] 'mouse-drag-region)
> (global-set-key [C-drag-mouse-1] 'mouse-set-region)
> (global-set-key [C-mouse-1] 'mouse-buffer-menu)
> 
> and get both, normal mouse dragging and the buffer menu.  What more
> would you need?

The rectangle-mark code can perhaps be rewritten to work that way, but doesn't it force the pop-up menu to be used with click-release-select-click-release instead of the quicker click-select-release?
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