From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Context menus and mouse-3 [was: Changes for emacs 28] Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 22:17:24 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87h7ryet7n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87k0wwsrj4.fsf@gkayaalp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8334"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: philipk@posteo.net, Richard Stallman , Ergus , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Gregory Heytings , Arthur Miller , Dmitry Gutov , =?utf-8?B?R8O2a3R1xJ8=?= Kayaalp To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 15 21:34:12 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 1kIGiS-00022j-0H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:34:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36444 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIGiR-0006Q1-2p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:34:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47912) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIGhi-0005c4-H8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:33:26 -0400 Original-Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]:42547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIGhg-0004Rb-Hz; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:33:26 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.97.241 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-97-241.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.97.241]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2D73E60007; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.195; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay3-d.mail.gandi.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/15 15:33:22 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:255785 Archived-At: > Seriously, read `Mouse Commands' if you haven't > already, and give it a try. Mouse support is poor in Emacs, this is the reason why I don't use the mouse in Emacs. More below: > Double-click (`mouse-1') on a word, then click > `mouse-3' on another word. The selection picks up > whole words, from the first through the last you > clicked. In other apps, the same is achieved by double-click (`mouse-1') on a word, then double-click the same (`mouse-1') on another word while holding down the Shift key. > Triple-click a line, then click `mouse-3' on > another line. The selection picks up whole lines. In other apps, triple-click a line, then again triple-click on another line while holding down the Shift key. But what if you need first to select a line, then extend the selection to a word? In other apps, triple-click a line, then double-click `mouse-1' on a word while holding down the Shift key. In Emacs, this is impossible. Also in other apps Shift+F10 opens the context menu, but why not in Emacs? > [I'd like to see the double-clicking extended, so > that if you double-click a paren in Lisp it picks > up the full sexp, and if you then `mouse-3' another > sexp it picks up full sexps in the interval. But > this is a bit trickier.] It would be easier to use this as: double-click a paren to select a sexp, then double-click another paren to select another sexp while holding down the Shift key.