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[PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse

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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: bug#38013: [PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 18:33:24 +0100

7 nov. 2019 kl. 20.08 skrev martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>:

> But by doing so it usurps all combinations of the control key and
> mouse-1.  So we pay a high price for such a small convenience.  And
> since I have never anywhere else seen a "context" menu pop up right
> after a mouse press I would not consider it the expected behavior.

I can assure you that press-select-release semantics for popup menus is very common, and has been for several decades. Most applications also support the click-select-click model.

However, I think we largely agree that the current buffer and face menus are of limited utility and that their bindings should not be considered sacred territory.

> For me mouse-3 is the preferred button to pop up a menu.  I never use
> mouse-3 to extend the selection because I'm not used to switch mouse
> buttons during one and the same action.

Finally something we seem to agree on.

> I suggested control-shift because it's IMHO the most convenient
> combination with two modifiers (at least on my past and present
> keyboards).

Thank you; it's not very convenient on my keyboards, so I'd rather use control-meta, but plain meta is of course better still.
In decreasing order of preference: meta, control, shift, control-meta, shift-meta, shift-control.

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