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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, alex@emacswiki.org
Subject: Re: when to bind *down-mouse* vs *mouse*?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:42:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1CcG87-0007bo-BR@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FDELKNEBLPKKDCEBEJCBAEFKCKAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

     1. when clicking a sensitive area (button, link) to trigger an action -
    bind mouse* (so the user can change his mind after mouse-down and move away
    to cancel the action)

     2. when the position of the mouse action is important (and not case 1) -
    bind down-mouse* (e.g. yank text where button is pressed)

This is not accurate.  Emacs does yanking on the up-event.
(I have no time to discuss whether this is right or wrong;
we're not changing it now.)

     3. opening popup menus - bind down-mouse* (to work correctly on problem
    platforms, as mentioned above)

I think this is the only occasion in which Emacs does something for a
down-event.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-09  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-02 22:28 when to bind *down-mouse* vs *mouse*? Drew Adams
2004-12-03  1:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-12-03  1:26   ` Drew Adams
2004-12-03 10:08     ` Andreas Schwab
2004-12-03 17:22       ` Drew Adams
2004-12-03 21:22         ` Andreas Schwab
2004-12-05 14:37         ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-03  2:00 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-03 17:22   ` Drew Adams
2004-12-03 18:53     ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-04 10:19     ` Jason Rumney
2004-12-04 17:59     ` Alex Schroeder
2004-12-04 19:06       ` Lennart Borgman
2004-12-04 21:42         ` Jan D.
2004-12-05  0:10         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-07 13:20           ` Jan D.
2004-12-06 19:16       ` Drew Adams
2004-12-06 20:10         ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-08  1:38         ` Alex Schroeder
2004-12-08 19:06           ` Drew Adams
2004-12-08 19:45             ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-08 20:42               ` Drew Adams
2004-12-09  4:42             ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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