GNU bug report logs - #6174
23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading

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Message #11 received at 6174 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 6174 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#6174: 23.2; mouse-sel-mode doc is misleading
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:32:30 -0400

>> From what I could gather by experimenting, 99.99% of the behavior that
>> is documented is already the mouse behavior in Emacs, that is, with
>> mouse-sel-mode turned off.
>> 
>> AFAICT, the only real difference is that when the mode is turned on the
>> selection is not copied to the kill-ring.  The kill-ring is unaffected,
>> except if you do some specific extra things.

> [...]

>> If I had to guess, I'd guess that this doc has never been updated since
>> Emacs itself adopted the same selection behavior.  And that was eons
>> ago.  IOW, maybe mouse-sel-mode was just the first code to provide such
>> behavior - dunno.

> Yes, looking at the documentation, I think that's right.

> Perhaps mouse-sel-mode should be marked as deprecated?

Probably.  Let's do that for Emacs-24.2.


        Stefan

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