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SKY-mouse: copy region to point

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From: Christopher John Chase
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 14:31
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I am using the sky-mouse package, which I find very useful, especially the on-line
help. I am looking for a function similar to mouse-yank-thing-to-point.
What I want to do is a function that remembers the current point or focus while
I drag out a region, then when the button is released, that region is copied (i.e.
copied as kill and yanked) to the previous point. Feedback is provided by marking
the region to be copied while dragging and after the copy the point is after the
yanked text (as with a normal yank). The user can abort the copy by releasing the
mouse button outside the screen where the dragging is taking place. As soon as the
button is released the marking or highlighting is removed from the copied region.

My emacs/epoch programming skills are insufficient to write such a function. It
would seem to be a variation on mouse-yank-thing-to-point and mouse-drag-point
combined. Can anybody help me out? (This may be a little too much work to ask of
anyone).

Thanks,
Chris Chase
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From: chase@ee.Princeton.EDU (Christopher John Chase)
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Subject: SKY-mouse: copy region to point
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