Suggestion: Optional highlighting of selected region in X

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From: Christian Callsen
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 11:43

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In GNU Emacs 19.27.1 (sparc-sun-solaris, X toolkit) of Fri Sep 16 1994 on micro

Current behavior of Emacs:

The current behavior when selecting a region with the mouse is to show
the selected region using highlighting, as long as the mouse button is
pressed down.

We have the following suggestion:

When selecting a region using the mouse under X11, the highlighting of
the region should stay *on*, after the mouse-button has been
released. This could optionally be controlled by an X11-mouse option,
i.e.:
	; Keep the selection highlighted after mouse button release
	; nil means no highlighting, t means keep highlighted
	(setq keep-selected-region-highlighted t)


Chris J. Callsen and Lars Albertsen
chris@iesd.auc.dk    iznogood@iesd.auc.dk

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