From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Context menus and mouse-3 [was: Changes for emacs 28] Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:10:51 +0300 Message-ID: <83wo0w9yx0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20200914061111.3trmuzhdvv7nwdcc@Ergus> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27355"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, ghe@sdf.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Ergus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 14 17:49:03 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kHqj1-00071p-35 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:49:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59472 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHqj0-00016j-1v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39132) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHq8B-0004Yc-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53801) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHq87-0000u2-GI; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3020 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kHq7z-0003Vh-QR; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:10:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200914061111.3trmuzhdvv7nwdcc@Ergus> (message from Ergus on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 08:11:11 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255651 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 08:11:11 +0200 > From: Ergus > Cc: philipk@posteo.net, Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > Arthur Miller , > Dmitry Gutov , Gregory Heytings > > Hi Drew: I'm not Drew. Still... > I have been trying to find the usefulness for the command > 'mouse-save-then-kill' and so far I understand what it does but I still > don't think it is more important/useful/intuitive than a good context > panel. When I said that I have never used it I mean because of a need > not because I don't know what it does. > > Actually part of it's function (the kill) could be considered as a > problem more than a feature for less expert users or accidental double > right click (ex: looking for the panel). > > Usually I prefer simpler solutions rather than complex and if I have to > do a proposal respecting to this, it will be: > > 1- Move mouse-save-then-kill to C-mouse-3 > > 2- Move The panel in C-mouse-3 to mouse-3 AFAIK, what Emacs does with mouse-3 is similar to what other X-aware applications do. If we change that by default, it might cause annoyance to those who use these X-related features.