Re: elisp mouse programming problems

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

David Vanderschel wrote:

> "Alex Schroeder" <alex@emacswiki.org> wrote in message
> news:87y8xnfbip.fsf@emacswiki.org...
> 
>>"David Vanderschel" <DJV1@Austin.RR.com> writes:
>>
> 
>>>How can a general purpose program like I am trying to make know, in
>>>general, which minor modes it must disable in order to work
>>>properly?  I feel that I must still be missing something here.
>>>
> 
>>I think you have just discovered one of the weaker points in the Emacs
>>user interface design.  The problem is, nobody knows what to do about
>>it.  :)  ...
>>
> 
> One possibility that did occur to me last night was
> that my program could itself introduce a new minor
> mode, invoke it, and do something to assure that its
> keymap is at the front of the list.  Then it _could_
> override the bindings of other minor modes.  Yet you
> did not suggest this solution.  Is there some reason
> why it would not work?


Since another minor mode might prepend its (VARIABLE . KEYMPAP) entry to

minor-mode-map-alist later, you would have to continually check and possibly

modify it, perhaps with post-command-hook.  It'd be a bit of a performance hit,
and not very elegant.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers