Quote: when selecting with a mouse, track the selection on button down, and commit on button up

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Two mouse buttons are used for selection. The … character is selected (video inverted), and the selection … Units larger than a single character [i.e., word, line, document] are selected by multiple clicking. … The right mouse button, called Adjust, is used … to move to the cursor position, subject to … [character, word, line] constraints … As with Point, the selection tracks the cursor …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: select with point and adjust mouse buttons; point selects characters, words, lines while adjust changes a selection

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