From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 50256@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50256: thing-at-mouse
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:20:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7f7z8ui.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeacdnmg.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 29 Aug 2021 22:03:51 +0200")
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> I'm not quite sure I understand how such a function would look like.
> `thing-at-point' has the signature
>
> (thing-at-point THING)
>
> Would the proposed new function have a signature
>
> (thing-at-mouse EVENT THING)
>
> ?
This looks like the right signature. Then the implementation
and an example of usage could look like this:
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diff --git a/lisp/thingatpt.el b/lisp/thingatpt.el
index ab17748df5..536eef5406 100644
--- a/lisp/thingatpt.el
+++ b/lisp/thingatpt.el
@@ -151,6 +151,15 @@ bounds-of-thing-at-point
(if (and (<= real-beg orig) (<= orig end) (< real-beg end))
(cons real-beg end))))))))))
+;;;###autoload
+(defun thing-at-mouse (event thing &optional no-properties)
+ "Return the THING at mouse click.
+Like `thing-at-point', but reacts to the event
+where the mouse button is clicked."
+ (save-excursion
+ (mouse-set-point last-input-event)
+ (thing-at-point thing no-properties)))
+
;;;###autoload
(defun thing-at-point (thing &optional no-properties)
"Return the THING at point.
diff --git a/lisp/net/dictionary.el b/lisp/net/dictionary.el
index f33cbaf112..c9b2bdeaf1 100644
--- a/lisp/net/dictionary.el
+++ b/lisp/net/dictionary.el
@@ -1368,5 +1367,14 @@ global-dictionary-tooltip-mode
(if on #'dictionary-tooltip-track-mouse #'ignore))
on))
+(defun context-menu-dictionary (menu)
+ "Dictionary context menu."
+ (when (thing-at-mouse last-input-event 'word)
+ (define-key menu [dictionary-separator] menu-bar-separator)
+ (define-key menu [dictionary-search-word-at-mouse]
+ '(menu-item "Dictionary Search" dictionary-search-word-at-mouse
+ :help "Search the word at mouse click in dictionary")))
+ menu)
+
(provide 'dictionary)
;;; dictionary.el ends here
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-29 17:21 bug#50256: thing-at-mouse Juri Linkov
2021-08-29 20:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-30 7:20 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-08-31 0:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-31 6:49 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-31 17:52 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-01 7:17 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-01 7:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-01 9:18 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-01 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-01 14:25 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-01 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-01 16:21 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-01 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-01 17:59 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-01 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-02 6:16 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-02 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-02 7:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-02 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-02 6:48 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-02 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-02 7:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-02 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-02 8:54 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-02 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-02 12:42 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-02 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-02 14:43 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-02 15:58 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-02 18:28 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-02 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-03 7:40 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-03 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-04 7:34 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-04 8:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-04 11:10 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-04 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-04 18:58 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-05 7:50 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-05 7:50 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-05 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-05 9:39 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-05 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 8:31 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-05 16:13 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-05 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 8:31 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-06 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 14:08 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-06 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 15:10 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-12 16:32 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-02 18:46 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-03 8:10 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-02 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-01 15:42 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-01 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-01 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-01 15:44 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-01 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-01 16:25 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-12 17:12 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-12 17:32 ` Juri Linkov
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