Re: Suggestion to add clickable text activation function to Emacs

[Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>]

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but how will this be different from
> calling the binding of the click?
>

​The binding of what click?  mouse-1, mouse-2, RET, some other key?  Look
at the doc in "(elisp)Clickable Text" and you will see there are many ways
to activate such text as explained there.  If we want clickable text
actions to be runnable programmatically (no user clicks), then there needs
to be a single function that can determine what action a user click would
have performed and returns that action or performs it.  In my original
message, I noted that push-button does this for buttons, so the issue is
the need for one for non-button clickable text.  Does that clarify the
issue?

Bob

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