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 21:01:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83zi9d5qq4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83o9pt79mw.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506708104 26812 195.159.176.226 (29 Sep 2017 18:01:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:01:44 +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 20:01:36 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 1dxzbR-00068x-SM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:01:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36494 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxzbZ-0008Ch-2n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:01:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38426) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxzbT-0008CX-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxzbO-0005OJ-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:01:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxzbO-0005OF-G4; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1410 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dxzbN-0000ur-Rt; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:01:30 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Robert Weiner on Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:43:03 -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:218925 Archived-At: > From: Robert Weiner > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:43:03 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel > > Maybe I'm missing something, but how will this be different from > calling the binding of the click? > > ​The binding of what click? mouse-1, mouse-2, RET, some other key? Whatever key or mouse button that you are interesting in, I suppose. > Look at the doc in "(elisp)Clickable > Text" and you will see there are many ways to activate such text as explained there. If we want clickable text > actions to be runnable programmatically (no user clicks), then there needs to be a single function that can > determine what action a user click would have performed and returns that action or performs it. In my original > message, I noted that push-button does this for buttons, so the issue is the need for one for non-button > clickable text. Does that clarify the issue? No, not really. The normal APIs to find a binding of a click or a keypress should give you the function which would be performed. But you most probably already know that. So I guess I don't see clearly the use case and its context. Could you perhaps describe such a use case where you'd need the function you think you lack? Thanks.