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bug#36365: Add info how to deselect secondary selection (Emacs manual)
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#36365: Add info how to deselect secondary selection (Emacs manual) |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:29:55 +0300 |
> From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>
> Cc: 36365@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 15:29:43 +0200
>
> > We've established that it isn't possible to deselect without making
> > a new selection.
>
> True.
>
> > So I don't think deselection is something we can describe, as it
> > doesn't really exist.
>
> That's why additional sentence won't be:
> "This command cancels any existing secondary selection."
> Instead it should be:
> "This command cancels any existing secondary selection, when it
> starts a new one."
>
> This sentence is from your patch and is applied to 'M-mouse-1'
> description in the manual, which runs 'mouse-start-secondary'.
It's okay for the manual to go an extra mile, but the fact that
starting a new selection cancels the old one is a trivium, so it isn't
necessary in the doc string.