From: Tobias Gerdin <tgerdin@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Keybinding for finding definition by mouse
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 22:06:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76face16-e29e-e945-674f-79b8a2f2e498@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello,
A function for jumping to a definition by clicking on an identifier was
recently added to master.[1]
For mouse users like myself this invoking this is probably the second
mouse common use of the mouse (after text selection) so I propose we add
a default binding for it in the global map. So which one? All other
editors/IDEs I am familiar with (Eclipse, IntelliJ, VS Code) has this
bound to <C-mouse-1>. Not that Emacs has to follow this convention, but
since it's a convenient choice this would be my preferred binding.
Because this is Emacs it as obviously already used (for
'mouse-buffer-menu'). The meta modifier mouse events are all used for
secondary selection (very useful) and I vaguely recall that shift
modified mouse events (S-mouse-..) are reserved for the user (in the
same spirit as the C-c), also makes sense.[2]
<C-mouse-2> is bound to 'face-menu'. It's useful on occasions (mostly in
enriched-mode I presume?) but since mouse-2 is typically bound to the
mouse wheel button on modern mice it is very uncomfortable for something
used regularly hence not a good choice I think.
My proposal:
<C-mouse-3> is bound to a mode-specific context menu ("major mode
menu"). Because this same menu is also available by clicking mouse-1 on
the mode name in the modeline (and it's also in the frame/application
menu) I propose we move 'mouse-buffer-menu' to C-mouse-3 in the interest
of freeing up C-mouse-1 for 'xref-find-definitions-at-mouse'.
<C-M-mouse-1> would be another, more conservative option because the all
of the <C-M-mouse-..> appears to be unbound.
Wishful thinking would be to also have 'xref-pop-marker-stack' bound to
some mouse event (ideally C-mouse-3) to enable keyboard-free code
browsing when one so feel inclined, but I may be greedy here and would
settle for keeping that one to my private keymap for now.
What do you think?
I am not subscribed to the list so I would be grateful if I would be
CC:ed any replies.
--
Regards,
Tobias Gerdin
[1]:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=455a236d415d3ca9a25564cd3f295f5e5e0bb7b4
[2]: Even so, ffap.el binds the similar functionality 'ffap-at-mouse' to
<S-mouse-3> through the command 'ffap-bindings'. So one option would be
to introduce a "dwim-at-mouse" unifying xref-find-definitions-at-mouse
and ffap-at-mouse and bind it to that.
next reply other threads:[~2018-07-08 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-08 20:06 Tobias Gerdin [this message]
2018-07-09 17:09 ` Keybinding for finding definition by mouse Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-09 20:40 ` Tobias Gerdin
2018-07-10 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-09 21:17 ` Tobias Gerdin
2018-07-09 17:43 ` Yuri Khan
2018-07-09 17:50 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-07-09 18:42 ` Yuri Khan
2018-07-09 19:16 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-09 19:58 ` Tobias Gerdin
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