Re: suggested new command `picture-mouse-set-point'

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:

> Indeed, in general it is harmless to left-click in a window,
> so Emacs doesn't need to be careful to turn the click event
> into a window-switch event only.  So we should indeed probably
> be careful to preserve the harmlessness of left-clicking, unless
> we decide to start doing what window-managers do and turn those
> clicks into window-switch events, but users might be annoyed by it.

Actually, now that I think about it...  I've been inconvenienced (is
that a sufficiently weak term?) slightly (just to be on the safe side)
by this often enough that I now hit F2 F2 (my personal binding for
other-window) instead of clicking with the mouse just to avoid
positioning point.

So a user option to prevent point moving when switching windows with
the mouse would be cool.

(The modeline also does this, but it's a bit hard to hit.)

kai
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