From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn't it use the pointerposition, not the cursor position? Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:08:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200506242308.j5ON88B11061@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119655751 14909 80.91.229.2 (24 Jun 2005 23:29:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:29:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 25 01:29:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlxbT-0004VM-7C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:28:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlxia-0000YV-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlxfm-0007Oh-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:33:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlxfl-0007OI-7z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlxfW-00070y-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:33:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DlxMX-0003Ie-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:13:29 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5ON9iCK006484; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:09:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j5ON88B11061; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:08:08 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: drew.adams@oracle.com In-reply-to: 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39468 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39468 Drew Adams wrote: The Describe Properties item runs describe-text-properties, which always references (the character after) point, never a region. Since it references a single position, to me the best position to use is the mouse-pointer position (when run from the mouse popup menu). If the mouse pointer does not point to a character, then an error message should say "No character here" or some such. C-mouse-2 is mainly a menubar substitute and for the menubar, only the position of point makes sense. BTW, I think there might also be a minor bug: Each time I use the Text Properties menu I get this message: " is undefined". This is either operating system specific or fixed in the meantime. I can not reproduce with today's CVS on GNU/Linux. Maybe people running MS Windows can reproduce it. Sincerely, Luc.