Re: Marking with the mouse

[Stefan Monnier]

>     Someone in gnu.emacs.help recently complained about the weird behavior
>     of the highlighting when you drag the mouse while pressing mouse-1:
>     the selected text is highlighted during the drag but the highlighting
>     disappears immediately after that.  I was thinking that maybe it's
>     a good idea to use the transient transient-mark-mode in this case, so
>     that marking with the mouse always behaves like transient-mark-mode.
> That is an interesting idea.  Could you install it with a variable to
> control it, so that people could try it out, and we could decide later
> on whether to make this change the default?

I'm not sure this is worth an option.


        Stefan