Re: Context menus and mouse-3 [was: Changes for emacs 28]

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:48:11AM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>   > > "Poor"? the below just says that other applications (which ones?) do
>>   > > it slightly differently, that's all.  I don't see how what you say
>>   > > justifies the "poor" part.
>>
>>   > Yes, this is subjective,
>>
>> The worst problem is, it is not concrete enough to be constructive.
>> If someone says your program is "poor", what could you usefully do?
>>
>> Please be more specific when you criticize.
>
>Constructively, I propose to include in Emacs a new mode
>(with a name like 'modern-mouse-mode') where
>
>- down-mouse-3 and mouse-3 pop up the context menu
>  containing at least the items "Cut", "Copy", "Paste", "Undo", "Redo"
>  (and only "Copy" when the buffer is in read-only mode);
>- holding down the Shift key while using mouse-1 adjusts
>  the already active region;
>- dragging the active region moves it to the place
>  where the mouse-1 was released;
>- dragging the active region copies it to another place
>  while holding down the Control key;
>- holding down the Shift key while scrolling with mouse wheel
>  scrolls the buffer horizontally;
>
>>   >  but while I use the mouse in other apps,
>>   > every time I try to use the mouse in Emacs, I can't make any sense of
>>   > default mouse bindings mess,
>>
>> Which bindings do you find confusing?
>
>This is just incompatibility between the currently active old mode
>that follows what X applications do, and more modern mouse bindings
>used nowadays in other applications.  So two separate modes are needed.

I haven't follow this but it seems very interesting, do you think it
makes sense that this becomes part of CUA-mode or are you thinking to
keep it apart?