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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jonathan Ganc <jonoftexas@gmail.com>
Cc: 9356-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9356: `event-modifiers' documentation
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:51:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy5yb6jx4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E55133E.1030308@gmail.com> (Jonathan Ganc's message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:05:34 -0500")

> Does that qualify, though? I'm not sure what the desired behavior for
> mouse-10 would be but, for example,  (event-modifiers 'mouse-9) => (click)
> and I certainly don't have a mouse-9 button.

If you ever manage to get a mouse-10 event, it should (and will) be
labeled as a click.  I've slightly changed the docstring to reflect the
fact that only `click' may be missing (and that this can not only
result in a nil result, e.g. C-mouse-10 will only say (control) instead
of (control click)).


        Stefan


> On 08/24/2011 09:27 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> The documentation for `event-modifiers' states:
>>> "If EVENT is a symbol that has never been used in an event that has been
>>> read as input in the current Emacs session, then this function can return
>>> nil, even when EVENT actually has modifiers." However, looking in the
>>> event-modifier' definition, the function
>>> internal-event-symbol-parse-modifiers' seems to deal with this (potential)
>>> issue. Can someone give me an example where `event-modifier' would
>>> inappropriately return nil?
>> (event-modifiers 'mouse-1) =>  (click)
>> (event-modifiers 'mouse-10) =>  nil
>> 
>> Not sure if other modifiers than `click' can be missing.
>> 
>> 
>> Stefan
>> 
>> 





      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-30 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-24  5:46 bug#9356: `event-modifiers' documentation Jonathan Ganc
2011-08-24 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]   ` <4E55133E.1030308@gmail.com>
2011-08-30 14:51     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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