Re: New Context Menu

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 02:26:08PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
>> Cc: spacibba@aol.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:13:59 +0300
>>
>> > I'm talking about the _behavior_, not about the bindings.  The
>> > behavior in the other cases is that releasing the mouse button doesn't
>> > pop down the menu in the other cases; with context menus, it does.
>> > That is sub-optimal UI, as users who don't expect that will see the
>> > menu flash momentarily and disappear, at least on TTY frames.  We
>> > should fix this so the context menus behave like the other drop-down
>> > menus we have.
>>
>> I don't understand how the behavior of the context menu could be
>> different from the behavior of the old binding [C-down-mouse-3]
>> when both have the same implementation.
>
>I cannot say I understand that in detail, either, but the fact is it
>does.  Maybe it's translation from C-down-mouse-3 to C-mouse-3?
>
No. C-down-mouse-3 is a modified mouse event; emacs gets it but not the
equivalent up events (C-up-mouse-3 for example) but it gets somehow the
up-mouse-3 event.

For example:

Try C-down-mouse-3 then Release Control and after that release the mouse
button. You will see a similar issue.

>> Does it pop down for you if you click [C-down-mouse-3] that displays
>> the local/global menu?
>
>No.  When I release the mouse button after clicking C-mouse-3, the
>menu stays displayed until I select a menu item (or dismiss the menu
>with the likes of C-g).