RE: poplife-mode

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > > I also hope we can include something like this in Emacs one day.  But
> > > I would not want to usurp the current binding of mouse-3, which is
> > > handy in its own right.  We could instead trigger the pop-up menu by,
> >
> > Have you tried C-mouse-3?  It already offers something similar, so it
> > would make sense to tweak it do what the OP needs.
> 
> That could work.  I'd still rather not require both a hand on the
> keyboard and the mouse to pop up a contextual menu, though.
> 
> I just read up on how Drew's library `mouse3' solves the problem.  If
> I understood it right, it redefines mouse-save-then-kill (mouse-3's
> normal binding) to respond differently to either a double-click of
> mouse-3 or two single-clicks of mouse-3 in the same spot.  A
> double-click kills the region as it usually does, whereas two
> single-clicks pop up a contextual menu with menu items based on either
> the "thing at point" (if no region is selected) or the selected
> region.  This also seems like o good solution.

FWIW: `mouse3.el', like all my code, is available for GNU Emacs.
Parts of it, which extend or modify existing Emacs code, could
be merged in (patch).  Other parts could be added.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/mouse3.el