From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Selection threshold with mouse
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:37:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsilwxcxk.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5763.1405868682.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> That's the "silly iteration" I had in mind: the 2nd part of this is
> the tricky one, because all we know from posn-at-x-y and its ilk is
> the pixel width of the object at the coordinates we pass to the
> function; we don't know the coordinates where the object starts.
Hmm... but don't the display matrices contain the needed info (i.e. the
"left-pixel boundary position"), since it's needed to react to an
expose event?
> Actually, I disagree: every other GUI app I could try behaves like the
> OP asked by default, so I see no reason for Emacs to offer an option
> here.
They do, but not for all operations. E.g. if you click on the rightmost
pixel of a hyperlink, your browser will happily consider that the click
was on the hyperlink, not on the position right after that one.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-20 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-19 8:32 Selection threshold with mouse Tak Kunihiro
2014-07-19 17:31 ` Drew Adams
2014-07-19 23:52 ` Tak Kunihiro
2014-07-20 1:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-20 4:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.5728.1405830249.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-20 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-20 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.5763.1405868682.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-20 15:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-07-20 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.5768.1405873481.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-20 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-20 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-21 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-21 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-23 0:27 ` Tak Kunihiro
2014-07-25 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-20 1:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.5704.1405791121.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-19 18:26 ` Barry Margolin
2014-07-19 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<837g395gp2.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-07-19 19:41 ` Drew Adams
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