From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mode line changes
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:07:44 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18383.13776.783993.199319@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803052344.m25NiZBu005661@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu>
> > That's why I said "where possible". Mouse-3 is tied up with other menus
> > on the major and minor modes. Whereas mouse-3 currently on the line
> > number mode does nothing so I don't see the point in breaking the
> > convention when there is no need.
>
> So you are arguing that for popping a menu one would have to use mouse-1
> for the major-mode, vc-mode, and minor-modes and then when moving one
> entry to the left use mouse-3 for the line-number/column-number menu ?
> That's completely inconsistent. Adding a binding to mouse-3 would make
> more sense if that's considered necessary.
I'm saying that the major and minor modes already use mouse-3 for pull down
menus and that mouse-3 is generally used elsewhere for pull down menus, but you
can twist it if you want.
Incidentally vc-mode doesn't say what mouse-2 and mouse-3 do in the tooltip.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-06 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-05 20:46 Mode line changes Nick Roberts
2008-03-05 21:40 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-05 23:20 ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-05 23:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-06 0:07 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2008-03-06 0:27 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-06 0:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-07 3:39 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-05 22:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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