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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>
Subject: Re: Getting the click position in a string
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:33:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <858xpqkgvy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r73j6mav.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:05:08 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Factoring the keymap and partial keymaps out into a separate function
>> would probably not be trivial.  But even if code reuse might not be
>> practical, I think that something like posn-key-binding should be
>> implemented in keyboard.c so that there is some guarantee it will
>> deliver the same results.
>
> I think it only makes sense to write it in the C code if the resulting code
> can be shared with Fread_key_sequence.  Until such a reorg is done, it'd be
> good to provide the function in subr.el along the other posn-* functions.
>
> But in order not to make it appear like an "accessor function", maybe it'd
> be better to name it differently, e.g. "posn-lookup-key-binding".
> Of course, another way to do it is to change `key-binding' so that it
> accepts a `posn' argument (and/or an event argument).

If it accepted an event instead of a keymap, that would be reasonably
convenient.  There is a certain danger that this extension would be
obscure: people might not know where to look for it in general.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-27 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-25  9:53 Getting the click position in a string David Kastrup
2006-04-25 14:36 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-25 14:55   ` David Kastrup
2006-04-26  8:13     ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-26  8:17 ` David Kastrup
2006-04-26 11:32   ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-26 11:56     ` David Kastrup
2006-04-26 12:52       ` David Kastrup
2006-04-26 12:54         ` David Kastrup
2006-04-26 13:58         ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-27 12:08           ` David Kastrup
2006-04-27 16:05             ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-27 18:33               ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-04-27 21:24                 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-27 21:39                   ` David Kastrup
2006-04-28 16:16                     ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-29 21:55                       ` David Kastrup
2006-04-29 23:33                         ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-30 21:55                           ` David Kastrup
2006-05-01  0:48                             ` Stefan Monnier
2006-05-01  5:55                               ` David Kastrup
2006-05-01 12:52                                 ` Stefan Monnier

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