From: JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Popup-menu signals quit when Aborted
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 16:58:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A8DC3798-5485-4F20-9F9A-F5AC0CEEF1CF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvblqi9rzg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Not certain, so I can really only turn this around — I don’t understand why signaling quit and failing to return would ever be desirable when a user dismisses a popup menu by clicking off of it. Maybe something to do with TTY menu equivalents?
> On Feb 1, 2020, at 11:47 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>> It seems sensible to me that if a mouse-event generates a popup menu,
>> and it is “gotten rid of” by the user by clicking off the menu, that
>> this should NOT signal a quit and ring the bell as if some kind of
>> error has occurred.
>
> I understand it can be useful not to signal `quit`, but I don't
> understand why it would make sense to make this choice depending on
> whether or not it is a mouse-event that caused the menu to be displayed.
>
>
> Stefan
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-01 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-01 14:51 Popup-menu signals quit when Aborted JD Smith
2020-02-01 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-01 15:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-01 16:41 ` JD Smith
2020-02-01 16:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-01 21:58 ` JD Smith [this message]
2020-02-01 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-01 21:58 ` JD Smith
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