Including some folks who seemed to have worked on this: --- On Mon, 12/8/08, Maindoor wrote: From: Maindoor Subject: Speedbar is messed up To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 12:36 PM Looks like this issue is there for a while: who made it this way ? Its awful. Thanks to Drew Adams for pointing me in the right direction. http://www.nabble.com/New-speedbar-version-td1003419.html Some one fix this. I tried playing with the mouse-1-click-follows-link variable, still nothing. sanjeev. --- On Mon, 12/8/08, Maindoor wrote: From: Maindoor Subject: RE: speedbar question To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, "Drew Adams" Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 11:12 AM I tried emacs -Q but the behavior is the same. and some version on windows works fine too. I think this is a bug and I've filed a bug report too. Thanks. --- On Sun, 12/7/08, Drew Adams wrote: From: Drew Adams Subject: RE: speedbar question To: sanjeevfiles@yahoo.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 10:40 PM > > > I wanted to use mouse-1 single click to do all i want in > > > speedbar instead of use mouse-2 ( scroll button ) click. > > > I couldn't find an easy way so I edited dframe.el and > > > swapped down-mouse-1 event and mouse-2 event. > > > Now I got exactly what I want but the problem is > > > that everytime i move the mouse in speedbar, i always > > > get some highlight as if i am trying to copy something. > > > Is there anyway to get around this or is there a way to > > > solve this correctly ? > > > > What Emacs version are you using? In Emacs 22 or later `mouse-1' should > > do what you want by default, and the behavior is controlled by option > > `mouse-1-click-follows-link'. > > I'm using 23.0.60.1 which would be the very latest, I'm running ubuntu > 8.04. mouse-1 doesn't do anything in speedbar, while clicking the > button in scroll wheel( mouse-2) or the middle button in thinkpad > selects the buffer or expands etc. I think its a trivial bug. But by > customizing i should be able to change it, I'm wondering how. > > The reason I'm saying its a trivial bug is because, it is not > intuitive and because, if you are familiar with dframe.el in speedbar, > middle button is mapped to dframe-click event and mouse-1 is mapped to > dframe-double-click event in dframe.el which is kind of > inverse. Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to customize it. [Please don't top-post. Use plain text, not HTML, for this mailing list.] Are you using emacs -Q? If not, perhaps something in your .emacs is causing the problem. What is your value of `mouse-1-click-follows-link'? I don't see the problem, with emacs -Q in this build: In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-11-24 on LENNART-69DE564 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include -fno-crossjumping' If your version is more recent than that, check Emacs NEWS (`C-h n') to see if this change was intentional. If it was not, please file an Emacs bug: `M-x report-emacs-bug'.