From: Steve Yegge <stevey@google.com>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: supporting mouse-entered, mouse-left
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:04:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c768dc60907312304i5ec1eae3tf267b1d002cb00cc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdl8ch3v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>wrote:
> Steve Yegge writes:
>
> > The mode decorates the source with various text properties to
> > facilitate navigation, outlining, folding, etc. My goal is to link
> > together all the references to each local variable,
>
> Are you being imprecise here? Surely you have already done this
> "linking" for other reasons?
>
I appear to have inadvertently omitted the word "visually". I meant:
"My goal is to link together _visually_ all the references to each local
variable,"
But you knew *exactly* what I meant already, based on your first
reply. You're just being coy, and it's charming, but it's not fooling us.
>
> > so they light up when you mouse over any of them.
>
> Ie, the only problem you are asking about here is to get the motion
> event, and run a hook on that?
>
Aye.
>
> > I can't use track-mouse,
>
> *sigh*
>
+1
>
> > or at least I don't think I can, since this feature needs to
> > trigger automatically as you move the mouse (from the idle loop).
>
> Well, even if track-mouse doesn't do exactly what you want, it's not
> clear to me that it's unusable. I can think of two interfaces that
> might serve:
>
> (1) a minor mode where a click toggles the highlighting corresponding
> to the js2-mode text properties at the point of the click (no
> motion tracking needed), and
>
> (2) a minor mode which is activated by a click (or popup menu
> selection), after which you can explicitly use track-mouse until
> the next non-motion event or something like that. I don't think
> this kind of mouse-tracking would require huge amounts of code for
> what you've described, although there are few enough mouse clicks
> that you may already be using them all.
>
No clicks. It's gotta work in unselected windows. Clicks are a
deal-breaker. Hell, I've already got it working when point enters
an identifier. So clicking the mouse *already works*.
No clicks!
>
> I think you do want some kind of activation, otherwise if any mouse
> motion enables the effect we'd have to coin a term "apoplectic fruit
> salad".
>
I'm fine with that term. We can even name the hook after it, for
all I care. But this isn't about what I want. It's my users. They *love*
this feature in my browser-based code navigation tool. They drool
over it. They demand it in Emacs... and who am I to deny them?
I'm afraid I don't have that kind of authority. My hands are tied here.
So we're just gonna have to implement it.
>
> If you want to test the "any motion" interface now, XEmacs has
> `mode-motion-hook'
XEmacs... that's that VIM clone, isn't it? Or was it SlickEdit?
In all seriousness, I'd love to go look, but if I'm going to implement
this feature in Emacs, I worry that I don't understand any of the
legal ramifications of not clean-rooming it.
If someone with the initials "rms" OKs it, then I'll look. Otherwise,
I'll just take your word for it. At least you've validated the idea
that it's useful.
-steve
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-01 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-31 7:13 supporting mouse-entered, mouse-left Steve Yegge
2009-07-31 15:38 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-31 15:48 ` Steve Yegge
2009-07-31 16:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-31 16:42 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-31 20:23 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-31 20:57 ` Steve Yegge
2009-08-01 0:56 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-01 5:52 ` Steve Yegge
2009-08-01 7:26 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-01 4:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-01 6:04 ` Steve Yegge [this message]
2009-08-01 7:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-31 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-31 22:05 ` Johan Bockgård
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