From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mode line changes Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:07:44 +1300 Message-ID: <18383.13776.783993.199319@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <18383.1723.48367.507940@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200803052140.m25Leveo005511@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <18383.10929.552453.7400@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200803052344.m25NiZBu005661@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204762108 1526 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2008 00:08:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:08:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 01:08:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JX3f7-0006WN-JP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:08:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX3ea-0005gB-0H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:08:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX3eN-0005RO-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX3eM-0005Nk-0K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX3eL-0005NK-GH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:07:53 -0500 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JX3eK-0003fH-V1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:07:53 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (57.60.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.60.57]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2F73DA040; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:07:48 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D847A8FC6D; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:07:45 +1300 (NZDT) In-Reply-To: <200803052344.m25NiZBu005661@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.91.2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91445 Archived-At: > > 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