From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp mouse programming problems Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:20:01 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F4634A1.1060506@yahoo.com> References: <8SidnSEhNIsRpdmiRTvUpQ@texas.net> <87y8xnfbip.fsf@emacswiki.org> <5vucncb0uK2Q-NiiRTvUqw@texas.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061588567 2512 80.91.224.253 (22 Aug 2003 21:42:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:42:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 22 23:42:45 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19qJgD-0007zT-00 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 23:42:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19qJew-0003CM-ED for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:41:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1061565590 5242037 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116082 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11996 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11996 David Vanderschel wrote: > "Alex Schroeder" wrote in message > news:87y8xnfbip.fsf@emacswiki.org... > >>"David Vanderschel" 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