[h-e-w] Selection by draging

[Neil Mackie]

I experience great problems when selecting text by dragging. I find selecting 
more than one page of text difficult. This is because to do so the text must be 
scrolled down the page. Hovering over the status bar scrolls the page, but too 
slowly. Hovering lower down is too fast and I end up at the end of the file 
before I know it. Once that happens all is lost because controlling the 
scrolling upwards is even more difficult than scrolling downwards.

The problem seems to have got worse as PC power increased. It used to be that 
the maximum scroll speed was comparable with human reaction speed but now the 
computers are just so darn fast. IMHO the user interface or the code behind it 
needs to change as the speed of modern PCs has made this part of the user 
interface unusable. 

It is something the emacs developers do/would consider? Does anyone else find 
the problem annoying or have an alternative method of selecting more then one 
page of text?

Regards,

Neil J Mackie


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