Re: middle mouse paste into isearch minibuffer

[Perry Wagle <wagle@mac.com>]

New comments, way at the bottom.

On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:23 PM, XeCycle wrote:

> Perry Wagle <wagle@mac.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> So you want to search the word at point, right?  Try C-s C-w.  If you
>>> need more, just press C-w more.
>> 
>> No, I have something in my mouse-2 paste buffer, one way or another.
> 
> Hmm, Emacs does have some problems with X primary selection.
> 
>> Also, I can double mouse-1 anywhere in a word.  Emacs wants me to be
>> more precise, by going to the beginning.
> 
> If you don't mind writing some Elisp, it's easy.  After all there's
> built-in M-h, you can refer to that.
> 
>> The mouse is not a precise instrument.  Rather, its a fast one, used
>> properly.
> 
> You're right, but how do you define "properly"?  I believe that's not my
> way of moving and clicking, it should be what I use it for.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> I suggest throwing away your mouse.
>> 
>> I suggest learning to use your mouse effectively with a real GUI.
>> Then come back and make more refined suggestions.
> 
> I won't bother to learn more about mouse using, but here's the more
> refined suggestion:
> 
> In GNU Emacs, use keyboard more, mouse less.  As for me, I use mouse to
> drag the windows for resizing and moving, and when it's sometimes
> confused by the primary selection.  If you're very annoyed when dealing
> X primary selection, you can write some Elisp to insert the primary
> selection at point, perhaps with an external tool like `xsel'.
> 
>>> Some hints: Use isearch extensively.  Jump to somewhere with C-s (or
>>> C-r), and after you finished your edits there, jump back with C-u C-SPC
>>> --- you may press it more if it failed.
>> 
>> As I said above, the stuff gets into my mouse-2 paste buffer in a number of
>> ways.  I make no sense of the above.  It doesn't apply.
> 
> Sorry, I have the prejudice that one who uses mouse a lot will use mouse
> to move around in the buffer.  If you don't do that, please ignore
> these.
> 
>>>> Apparently, I'm going to have to do this myself, unless someone else
>>>> sees my light this time.  What's the best way to do it?  I have the
>>>> feeling I'm fighting the foundations of emacs to try to funnel mouse
>>>> button events into the minibuffer.
> 
> If you're interested in mouse in Emacs, you can help extending it.  In
> this case, you don't need to hack the core of Emacs yet.
> 
>>>> Thanks for whatever help, hints, and guidance you can give me!
>> 
>> With a little help from #emacs, I got isearch.el to do what I want, by
>> telling it to NOT abort itself if mouse-2 is pressed outside the
>> minibuffer.  But now it drags the highlighted region all over the
>> place when I keep pressing control s.
> 
> Don't know about this, since I don't know what you did exactly.

Here's my mods to isearch.el in emacs 23.2.1.  I commented out the lines
I didn't want and added the transient-mark-mode to *INCORRECTLY*
disable the highlighting (that is, I think I need to do it differently):

(defun isearch-mouse-2 (click)
  "Handle mouse-2 in Isearch mode.
For a click in the echo area, invoke `isearch-yank-x-selection'.
Otherwise invoke whatever the calling mouse-2 command sequence
is bound to outside of Isearch."
  (interactive "e")
;;  (let* ((w (posn-window (event-start click)))
;;	 (overriding-terminal-local-map nil)
;;	 (binding (key-binding (this-command-keys-vector) t)))
;;    (if (and (window-minibuffer-p w)
;;	     (not (minibuffer-window-active-p w))) ; in echo area
	(isearch-yank-x-selection)
	(transient-mark-mode)
;;      (when (functionp binding)
;;	(call-interactively binding)))))
)

> 
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> Carl Lei (XeCycle)
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