Re: Does gnu emacs have the equivalent of Xemacs mouse-track-insert

[harven]

>> 2. On my linux host, somehow (keyboard shortcut settings?), so the M-
>> leftclick selects the window that I am working on, so when sliding,
>> the window is getting moved instead of selcting the text on which I
>> slide the mouse.
>
> It's working OK here (i.e.  M-click does not change the window). What
> version of emacs are you using?
>
>> 3. So I tested with ESC-leftclick and this partially works when emacs
>> is invoked with -nw, but it does not work in the window based.
> (...)
>
> Strange. Sorry, no idea what's  wrong with your installment. At least
> I can  tell you mine  seems to be  working correctly, so try  to play
> around with your settings.

There is nothing wrong with his installation. M-leftclick is intercepted
by his window manager. This is a standard shortcut in metacity for moving a 
window. This can be disabled with the gconf-editor, in apps>metacity>general 
item mouse_button_modifier.