From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Context menus and mouse-3 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 22:45:44 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87d02lykl3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <67FBE6CE-73C5-4C14-8531-AB55ADE3CC36@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32309"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tak Kunihiro Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 16 22:02:21 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kIddE-0008IG-8E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 22:02:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47110 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIddD-0003kJ-7d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:02:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52284) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIdbK-0002O5-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from relay10.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.230]:39609) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIdbI-0004Qw-1V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-108-13.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.108.13]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay10.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C80B724000C; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 20:00:15 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <67FBE6CE-73C5-4C14-8531-AB55ADE3CC36@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> (Tak Kunihiro's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:28:56 +0900") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.178.230; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay10.mail.gandi.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/16 16:00:18 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255925 Archived-At: > I have an impression that relative to Emacs's capability, mouse support > is not as good as expected. > > - Horizontal scroll by wheel is supported. Please explain how horizontal scroll by wheel is supported. I tried to use Shift-wheel like in other apps, but it doesn't scroll horizontally. > - Moving text using mouse is supported. Also please explain how moving text using mouse is supported. I tried to drag the selection with mouse-1, but it doesn't move text. > * Contextual menu is not supported yet. > > I think that depending on a thing at mouse event (file, dir, or URL), > choice of operation should be popped up. When there is no suggestion, > `Edit' menu should be popped up. Also, by click on mode-line, buffer > list should be popped up. > > I am using a global minor mode `poplife-mode' that puts commands on > mouse-3. I attach a file with poplife-mode to show the idea. Thanks, this is a good starting point for adding contextual menu. I tried poplife-mode, and it pops up the menu on mouse-3, but it seems only when there is the selection already, i.e. it doesn't pop up the menu when nothing is selected. Is this intended to work this way?