Re: move selection by dragging it with the middle mouse button?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

jarausch@skynet.be writes:

> With my previous editor I could select some text (e.g. by 
> dragging the left mouse button) and then by clicking and 
> dragging with the middle mouse button I could move the selected 
> text around. 
>
> Is this possible with Emacs and how?

No need for dragging, it is very slow. Better left click at the 
beginning of the region you want to move, right click twice at the 
end of the region. Middle click where you want to move the text 
to.

Or even faster avoid the mouse, by the time you got your hand to 
the mouse and found the cursor in the screen, you could have 
C-<space>, do a search with C-s, C-w, another search with C-s or 
C-r, and C-y =)

Best,
--
Jorge.