From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Popup-menu signals quit when Aborted
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 10:55:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmua29ud9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97CB42CE-5971-4EA5-B96C-6FA7620DDB74@gmail.com> (JD Smith's message of "Sat, 1 Feb 2020 09:51:22 -0500")
> `x-popup-menu` is setup to handle mouse events specially when “aborting” the
> menu by clicking off of it:
>
>> If the user gets rid of the menu without making a valid choice, for
>> instance by clicking the mouse away from a valid choice or by typing
>> keyboard input, then this normally results in a quit and
>> ‘x-popup-menu’ does not return. But if POSITION is a mouse button
>> event (indicating that the user invoked the menu with the mouse) then
>> no quit occurs and ‘x-popup-menu’ returns nil.
I wasn't aware (or if I was, I forgot about it in the mean time) of
this oddity.
> This seems sensible.
I'm glad you find it so, because I can't figure out the underlying logic
of this oddity. Can you explain why you think it's sensible?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-01 15:55 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 [this message]
2020-02-01 16:41 ` JD Smith
2020-02-01 16:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-01 21:58 ` JD Smith
2020-02-01 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-01 21:58 ` JD Smith
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