PR Summary

As it says in the what's new entry:

The~matplotlib.widgets.RectangleSelector and~matplotlib.widgets.EllipseSelector have a new keyword argument,select_whole_region, which when set toTrue allows you to click and drag from anywhere inside the selector to move it. Previously it was only possible to move it by either activating the move modifier button, or clicking on the central handle.

Questions:

• Any opinions on turning this on by default?
• Does anyone have any better ideas for the keyword argument name?select_whole_region is the best I came up with, but it doesn't feel great.

Here's an example:

PR Checklist

• Has pytest style unit tests (andpytest passes).
• IsFlake 8 compliant (runflake8 on changed files to check).
• New features are documented, with examples if plot related.
• Documentation is sphinx and numpydoc compliant (the docs shouldbuild without error).
• Conforms to Matplotlib style conventions (installflake8-docstrings and runflake8 --docstring-convention=all).
• New features have an entry indoc/users/next_whats_new/ (follow instructions in README.rst there).
• API changes documented indoc/api/next_api_changes/ (follow instructions in README.rst there).