Re: Emacs 19.7

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From: Per Abrahamsen
Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 01:06

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>>>>> On 28 May 1993 17:16:58 GMT, Jim.Rees@umich.edu said:

Jim.Rees> No, transient-mark-mode is just region hiliting, where the
Jim.Rees> hilite appears on mouse-up.  Mouse-drag hiliting is
Jim.Rees> different, that's where the hilited area follows the mouse
Jim.Rees> as you drag.

What I ment was that you can select a region by draging the mouse, and
you can highlight the region.  I don't think Emacs 18 could do any of
those.  I agree that highlighting the region *while* dragging the
mouse it better, and that is why I said Emacs `sort of' supported it.

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