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Re: 7.3C Emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jul 29 14:22:25 1991
To: ckclark@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
From: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 91 14:22:18 BST
> >>>>> On Mon, 29 Jul 91 11:55:11 -0400, vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU said:
>
> vanharen> This line in my .emacs no longer works:
>
> vanharen> (define-key mouse-map x-button-right-up 'x-mouse-set-mark)
>
> I loaded your .emacs file and then evaluated that line (as you had
> commented it out in your .emacs file). The line seems to do what it is
> supposed to do; i.e., bind the lifting of the right mouse button to the
> function x-mouse-set-mark.
>
> The function x-mouse-set-mark has the following description:
>
> x-mouse-set-mark:
> Select Emacs window mouse is on, and set mark at mouse position.
> Display cursor at that position for a second
>
> And that's exactly what it seems to do. Please provide an example of
> the sort of thing you were trying to do with causes this to fail.
Sorry, I should've been more explicit. If I eval that line, it works
fine. However, if I put it in my .emacs file, emacs complains of "Error
in init file" at startup time.
-C.
