From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ottomaddox@fastmail.fm: Incorrect help for mouse click]
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:01:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r75ftn23.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FG3wT-0000gT-5d@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:51:17 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Would someone please DTRT and ack this message?
>
> From: "Otto Maddox" <ottomaddox@fastmail.fm>
> Subject: Incorrect help for mouse click
> To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
>
> Go into a dired buffer. Hover the mouse pointer over a file or
> directory name. The popup tooltip says "mouse-1: visit this file in
> another window". But doing `C-h k' and then clicking with mouse-1
> displays *Help* for <down-mouse-1> (mouse-drag-region). I don't know
> if this is "technically" correct, but in any case, it is very
> confusing.
It is not incorrect, since there is both a `down-mouse-1' binding and
a `mouse-1' binding (actually, `mouse-2' translated to `mouse-1' by
the mouse-1-click-follows-link mechanism.) Maybe the solution is for
C-h k to also display the mouse-X binding when it detects a
down-mouse-X event.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-06 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-06 0:51 [ottomaddox@fastmail.fm: Incorrect help for mouse click] Richard Stallman
2006-03-06 19:01 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2006-03-06 20:30 ` Chong Yidong
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