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[PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse

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Message #68 received at 38013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 38013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38013: [PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 19:28:48 +0100

> I can assure you that press-select-release semantics for popup menus
> is very common,

At least here on Windows pressing the right mouse button does nothing
with Firefox, Thunderbird or the desktop.

> 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.

I fully agree but obviously cannot speak for the others.  It would be
nice though to settle this very issue in order to free the down
bindings for good.

> 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.

It's clearly up to you to propose any of them.

martin

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