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@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ ring; on a second click, kill it (@code{mouse-save-then-kill}).
invoked by clicking with the left mouse button, @kbd{mouse-1}, in the
text area of a window. This moves point to the position where you
clicked. If that window was not the selected window, it becomes the
-selected window.
+selected window. You can also activate a region by double-clicking
+mouse-1 (@pxref{Word and Line Mouse}).
@vindex x-mouse-click-focus-ignore-position
Normally, if the frame you clicked in was not the selected frame, it
@@ -215,7 +216,7 @@ also copied to the kill ring.
@table @kbd
@item Double-mouse-1
-Select the text around the word which you click on.
+Select the text around the word or character which you click on.
Double-clicking on a character with symbol syntax (such as
underscore, in C mode) selects the symbol surrounding that character.
@@ -226,6 +227,17 @@ ends. Double-clicking on a character with string-delimiter syntax
constant (Emacs uses heuristics to figure out whether that character
is the beginning or the end of it).
+Double-clicking on the beginning of a parenthetical grouping or
+beginning string-delimiter moves point to the end of the region,
+scrolling the buffer display forward if necessary to show the new
+location of point. Double-clicking on the end of a parenthetical
+grouping or end string-delimiter keeps point at the end of the region
+by default, so the beginning of the region will not be visible if it
+is above the top of the window; setting the user option
+@code{mouse-select-region-move-to-beginning} to non-nil changes this
+to move point to the beginning of the region, scrolling the display
+backward if necessary.
+
@item Double-Drag-mouse-1
Select the text you drag across, in the form of whole words.