From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: when to bind *down-mouse* vs *mouse*? Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:10:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102364060 2112 80.91.229.6 (6 Dec 2004 20:14:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:14:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Luc Teirlinck , Alex Schroeder Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 06 21:14:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CbPFO-00088W-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:14:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CbPP9-0006HE-9l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:24:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CbPNq-0005St-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:22:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CbPNl-0005Qk-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:22:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CbPNk-0005PN-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:22:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CbPCN-0003bl-Gy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485348282B8; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:11:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B194AC677; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:10:54 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 713FA8CA69; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:10:49 -0500 (EST) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:16:20 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-3.481, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 1.42, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30766 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30766 > available right now -, they generally bring up a popup menu on mouse-up, not > on mouse-down. [...] > And these applications nevertheless let you keep the button pressed and > release it on a menu item to choose the item. And they let you, Hmm... think about how they reconcile those two conflicting descriptions of the behavior and you'll see that they *do* pop up the menu *before* mouse-up (at leas sometimes, it may be time-dependent on some toolkits). Stefan