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bug#32578: Remove "joke" from drag events documentation
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#32578: Remove "joke" from drag events documentation |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 01:57:01 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> Good gracious, this isn't even a good joke. What if this patch changed the
> joke to something better? "A @dfn{drag event} happens every time the user
> presses a mouse button and then moves the mouse to a different character
> position before releasing the button. While that should never happen in
> practice, you may find it necessary to react to such events to remind the
> user that no true Emacs operator even owns a mouse."
Reminds me an illustration in an old book depicting a terminal with
an attached mouse and titled "workstation of a mouse operator"
where a mouse operator implied a profession :-)