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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 12204@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12204: 24.1.50; Binding mouse-movement interferes with "C-h c" for mouse clicks
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:10:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ink15mbn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmpuukgh.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (npostavs@users.sourceforge.net)

> From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
> Cc: 12204@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:18:54 -0400
> 
> > This happens because gud-tooltip-mode binds the command
> > gud-tooltip-mouse-motion to mouse-movement event.  The echo area
> > display of "C-h c" about that is promptly erased by the next mouse
> > motion, so if you are going for a tool bar or menu bar, you won't
> > notice it.  Then you will be surprised by the execution of a command
> > for which you wanted to see help.
> >
> > This is not a bug, strictly speaking: the help command works as
> > designed.  But I wonder whether we could somehow surprise the user
> > less in this situation.
> 
> Perhaps describe-key could respect 'use-dialog-box' and popup a dialog
> box when the "key" comes from the mouse?

What would be shown in the dialog box?





  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-12 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-14 19:07 bug#12204: 24.1.50; Binding mouse-movement interferes with "C-h c" for mouse clicks Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12  0:18 ` npostavs
2017-06-12 14:10   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-06-12 16:58     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-12 17:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 17:15         ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-12 17:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-25  3:18             ` npostavs
2017-06-25 13:49               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-01 14:10                 ` npostavs

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