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Article #1952SKY-mouse: copy region to point
From: Christopher John Chase
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 14:31
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,dab999a98baa531c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-05-15 00:45:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!udel!princeton!phoenix.Princeton.EDU!cjchase From: chase@ee.Princeton.EDU (Christopher John Chase) Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Subject: SKY-mouse: copy region to point Keywords: sky-mouse, copy Message-ID: <9529@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 14 May 91 14:31:49 GMT Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Organization: EE Dept, Princeton U Lines: 17