Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:24:26 +0700
> Cc: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>, 
>       Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, "Alfred M. Szmidt" 
> <ams@gnu.org>, 
>       Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Gregory Heytings 
> <ghe@sdf.org>, TEC <tecosaur@gmail.com>
> 
> > We have this on C-mouse-2 and C-mouse-3.  Putting those on mouse-2 and
> > mouse-3 would fly in the face of pasting text from the window-system
> > selection, which is something a text editor cannot possibly disable by
> > default.
> 
> mouse-2 pastes text from selection and a context menu would not change
> that.

It will on two-button mice.

> mouse-3, as far as I can tell[1], extends the selection to the
> point of the click. In most applications, this is done by Shift+left
> click.

Shift+left click is already taken in Emacs.

I'm not sure a complete reshuffle of mouse-related bindings, of the
kind that seems to be implied here, is really a good idea in Emacs.