From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: philipk@posteo.net, rms@gnu.org, spacibba@aol.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, ghe@sdf.org,
drew.adams@oracle.com
Subject: Re: Context menus and mouse-3
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:37:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kcw28zk.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1m3WXu-00089Y-A2@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:30:54 -0400")
>> Context menus are useful everywhere, not just in special places.
>> For example, selecting "Paste" from the context menu makes sense
>> everywhere.
>
> Where in Emacs do we have context menus which include "Paste"?
When the menu-bar is disabled, then C-down-mouse-3 pops up the global
menu where "Edit" contains "Paste". When the menu-bar is enabled,
then some modes include "Paste" (e.g. calculator-paste) in a buffer-local menu.
And some modes like org-mode, flyspell-mode, etc. already redefine
down-mouse-3 to pop up context menus.
> I thought we were talking about existing menus popped by mouse-2 that
I suppose you meant C-down-mouse-3?
> you'd like to pop up with mouse-3. If this isn't the case, then what
> menus are we talking about here? In particular, if you want to _add_
> menus which currently don't exist in contexts where we currently don't
> offer menus, that could be an entirely new minor mode, and then the
> conflict with current bindings of mouse-3 could be resolved as part of
> that mode.
It seems a new minor mode is unavoidable because when the user wants
down-mouse-3 to pop up the context menu immediately, then
for the best effect down-mouse-3 should be bound directly
to the context-map, instead of sending the [context-menu] event.
>> In the previous patch, the defcustom is named mouse-3-down-context-menu.
>> When it's customized to nil, then only the current behavior is available
>> with mouse-save-then-kill. When customized to t, then the context menu
>> pops up immediately.
>
> I was thinking about something more flexible than an all-or-nothing
> setting. A delay is not really intelligent enough, since it again is
> a global value. I was thinking about something sensitive to the
> context.
The users who currently use mouse-3 to operate on the region
might want to continue using it even on context-sensitive regions.
For example, like in all browsers, down-mouse-3 in e.g. Info browser or eww,
will show the menu with such items as "Backward" and "Forward".
But when down-mouse-3 will be clicked on a link, it will display
the context sensitive menu with "Follow" and "Open in New Window".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-14 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 112+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-14 3:06 Context menus and mouse-3 [was: Changes for emacs 28] Drew Adams
2020-09-14 6:11 ` Ergus
2020-09-14 6:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-14 6:48 ` Ergus
2020-09-14 7:49 ` tomas
2020-09-14 7:58 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-14 8:29 ` tomas
2020-09-14 9:03 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-14 9:12 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-14 11:37 ` tomas
2020-09-14 12:36 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-14 15:59 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-14 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-14 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-14 20:54 ` tomas
2020-09-15 4:35 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-15 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-19 7:47 ` Tak Kunihiro
2020-09-19 8:02 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-07-11 23:38 ` Context menus and mouse-3 Juri Linkov
2021-07-12 1:25 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-12 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-12 20:56 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-13 0:19 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-13 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-13 23:46 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-14 4:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-14 23:37 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-07-15 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 22:23 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-16 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-16 18:59 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-16 20:05 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-18 5:13 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-07-18 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-19 15:55 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-19 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-20 20:52 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-20 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-20 23:15 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-21 4:39 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-07-21 5:07 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-21 12:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-21 17:26 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-22 3:49 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-07-22 4:06 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-19 19:59 ` Ergus via Emacs development discussions.
2021-07-20 20:51 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-12 22:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-12 23:56 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-13 3:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-13 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-14 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-14 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-15 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-15 22:31 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-16 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-16 18:50 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-16 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-15 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 22:28 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-16 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-16 18:56 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-16 23:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-07-17 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-17 21:46 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-17 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-19 17:48 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-07-19 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-14 15:10 ` Context menus and mouse-3 [was: Changes for emacs 28] Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-14 16:42 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-14 8:15 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-14 8:33 ` tomas
2020-09-14 15:57 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-15 19:17 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-15 20:33 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-15 22:47 ` Ergus via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-16 0:29 ` Corwin Brust
2020-09-16 1:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-16 1:25 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-16 8:10 ` Ergus
2020-09-16 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-17 3:57 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-17 20:10 ` Ergus
2020-09-17 21:58 ` Philip K.
2020-09-17 3:51 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-16 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-16 19:41 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-16 2:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-16 19:35 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-16 23:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-17 3:58 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-17 7:48 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-17 20:13 ` Ergus
2020-09-18 8:19 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-18 10:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-19 4:01 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-09-16 6:28 Context menus and mouse-3 Tak Kunihiro
2020-09-16 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-16 14:37 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-16 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-16 15:39 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-17 3:57 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-16 19:45 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-16 23:49 ` Tak Kunihiro
2020-09-17 2:33 ` Tak Kunihiro
2020-09-17 7:43 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-17 9:22 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-17 18:59 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-17 19:41 ` chad
2020-09-18 8:23 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-18 18:41 ` chad
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