From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion to add clickable text activation function to Emacs Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:27:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83o9pt79mw.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506702511 10119 195.159.176.226 (29 Sep 2017 16:28:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rswgnu@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 29 18:28:26 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dxy9I-000221-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:28:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxy9P-0000mJ-I7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40387) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxy8j-0000kb-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:27:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxy8e-0004ny-5c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48414) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxy8e-0004nu-1m; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:27:44 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1339 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dxy8d-0007Kj-7B; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:27:43 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Robert Weiner on Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:42:15 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218911 Archived-At: > From: Robert Weiner > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:42:15 -0400 > > Emacs allows for the definition of buffer regions that represent "clickable text", see "(elisp)Clickable Text". > One type of clickable text is a button which can be programmatically activated (have its action executed) with > the push-button function. > > But there does not seem to be a function to programmatically activate other types of clickable text. This is a > suggestion that such a function be added to Emacs. It would be similar to push-button but would account for > all the ways clickable text can be activated. Right now it appears that non-button clickable text can be > activated essentially only interactively, e.g. with a press of RET or mouse-2 or invocation of their key bindings. > But that is only one of many possible ways of activating clickable text. Maybe I'm missing something, but how will this be different from calling the binding of the click?