From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: poplife-mode
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 02:17:14 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8VAsYsoSafW_6Si68nhASiv2Ewhu_=bX3yS+C3vCseQdA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwva7zrv1cb.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Is it a good idea to invent a UI that is unlike anything out there in
>> any other GUI application, at least AFAIK? Last time Emacs did that
>> there was no other app around, but not so nowadays...
>
> AFAIK "long click brings up a context menu" was used in macOS some years
> ago (no idea if it is still used), so it's not a completely new idea.
Also, on mobile devices (starting at least as far back as Pocket PC
around 2002), as a poor man’s substitute for secondary mouse button
click. Inefficient as hell, since instead of just clicking a button
you have to hold your finger until the timeout elapses and watch the
little ring around your cursor fill.
> The only existing standard I know for context menus is to use mouse-3,
> but that clashes with existing Emacs behavior. Of course, we could
> simply drop that existing Emacs behavior.
Those same applications that show a context menu on the secondary
mouse button click also select a region on Shift+primary click.
Emacs as is:
* <mouse-3> marks region, one more <mouse-3> at the same position kills it
* <S-mouse-1> pops up buffer appearance menu
Emacs mimicking other applications could do this:
* <mouse-3> pops up context menu which includes buffer appearance as
part or submenu
* <S-mouse-1> marks region, one more <S-mouse-1> at the same position kills it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-12 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-05 1:00 poplife-mode Tak Kunihiro
2017-11-05 5:52 ` poplife-mode Drew Adams
2017-11-11 12:47 ` poplife-mode Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-11 15:01 ` poplife-mode Stefan Monnier
2017-11-12 13:55 ` poplife-mode Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-12 16:46 ` poplife-mode Stefan Monnier
2017-11-12 16:54 ` poplife-mode Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-12 17:47 ` poplife-mode Stefan Monnier
2017-11-12 19:17 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2017-11-12 20:32 ` poplife-mode Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-12 20:36 ` poplife-mode Stefan Monnier
2017-11-13 5:03 ` poplife-mode Yuri Khan
2017-11-12 18:06 ` poplife-mode Stefan Monnier
2017-11-12 20:24 ` poplife-mode Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-13 8:11 ` poplife-mode Tak Kunihiro
2017-11-13 14:36 ` poplife-mode Drew Adams
2017-11-13 23:03 ` poplife-mode Tak Kunihiro
2017-11-14 0:48 ` poplife-mode Drew Adams
2017-11-14 23:26 ` poplife-mode Tak Kunihiro
2017-11-14 23:40 ` poplife-mode Drew Adams
2017-11-13 1:36 ` poplife-mode Drew Adams
2017-11-13 3:40 ` poplife-mode Drew Adams
2017-11-13 4:06 ` poplife-mode Stefan Monnier
2017-11-13 14:36 ` poplife-mode Drew Adams
2017-11-13 15:24 ` poplife-mode Stefan Monnier
2017-11-13 17:08 ` poplife-mode Drew Adams
2017-11-13 20:20 ` poplife-mode Stefan Monnier
2017-11-13 21:56 ` poplife-mode Drew Adams
2017-11-13 23:13 ` poplife-mode Stefan Monnier
2017-11-13 23:08 ` Changing default mouse bindings (was: poplife-mode) Alex
2017-11-14 2:50 ` Changing default mouse bindings Stefan Monnier
2017-11-14 7:07 ` Yuri Khan
2017-11-14 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-14 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-14 16:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-14 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<838tf8lwqn.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-11-14 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-14 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<<838tf8lwqn.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<69307385-5625-48dc-9611-ad7f0b6bd529@default>
[not found] ` <<83r2t0kdaz.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-11-14 19:47 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-14 20:26 ` Changing default mouse bindings (was: poplife-mode) Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-14 23:11 ` Changing default mouse bindings Tak Kunihiro
2017-11-15 3:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-16 23:21 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-11-17 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-10 4:34 ` Tak Kunihiro
[not found] ` <<838tf5id1e.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-11-17 15:31 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-17 16:25 ` Sam Steingold
2017-11-13 23:16 ` poplife-mode Tak Kunihiro
[not found] ` <<jwvy3ncx3kx.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<m2h8tzppod.fsf@aurox.ch>
2017-11-13 1:06 ` poplife-mode Drew Adams
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