Re: Getting the click position in a string

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

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

>> It would not really suffice to let it accept an event instead of
>> KEY: for implementing the follow-link functionality, the lookup has
>> to be for [follow-link], but for a given event of type down-mouse-1
>> or similar.
>
> Oh, now I understand what you mean.  So you basically want to add a
> `position' argument to `key-binding'?  How 'bout adding a `position'
> argument to `current-active-maps'?

Well, if we had a lookup function accepting a list of keymaps...  It
seems a bit tiresome to loop all by one's own, so while adding the
argument to `current-active-maps' seems like a good idea, it also
seems like things calling it implicitly (like `key-binding') should
also get that argument.

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