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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn't it use the pointerposition, not the cursor position?
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:48:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICAEKPCJAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICMEKOCJAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

    The Describe Properties item runs describe-text-properties,
    which always references (the character after) point, never a
    region. Since it references a single position, to me the best
    position to use is the mouse-pointer position (when run from
    the mouse popup menu). If the mouse pointer does not point to a
    character, then an error message should say "No character here"
    or some such.

To be clearer, this is the kind of behavior I would propose for Text
Properties > Describe Properties:

(defun describe-props-at-mouse (event)
  "Describe text properties of character under the mouse pointer"
  (interactive "e")
  (save-excursion
    (set-buffer (window-buffer (posn-window (event-end event))))
    (goto-char (posn-point (event-end event)))
    (describe-text-properties (point))))

The error you get if you point to something other than a character is this:
"No character follows specified position".

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-24 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-24 15:25 Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn't it use the pointer position, not the cursor position? Drew Adams
2005-06-24 15:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-24 16:37   ` Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn't it use the pointerposition, " Drew Adams
2005-06-24 16:48     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2005-06-24 23:08     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-24 23:35       ` Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn't it use thepointerposition, " Drew Adams
2005-06-25 22:53       ` Drew Adams
2005-06-25 23:17         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-25 23:32           ` Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn't it usethepointerposition, " Drew Adams
2005-06-25 23:29         ` Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn't it use thepointerposition, " Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-26  1:26         ` Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn't it usethepointerposition, " Drew Adams
2005-06-26  1:29           ` Drew Adams
2005-06-27  0:07           ` Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn't itusethepointerposition, " Drew Adams
2005-06-27  0:46             ` Drew Adams
2005-06-27 16:46             ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-27 22:35               ` Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn'titusethepointerposition, " Drew Adams
2005-06-27 22:41               ` Do Re Mi (was: Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn'titusethepointerposition, not the cursor position?) Drew Adams
2005-06-28 18:43                 ` Do Re Mi (was: Q on Text Properties popup menu -shouldn'titusethepointerposition, " Drew Adams
2005-06-28 18:47                 ` Do Re Mi (was: Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn'titusethepointerposition, " Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-28 19:53                   ` Do Re Mi (was: Q on Text Properties popup menu -shouldn'titusethepointerposition, " Drew Adams
2005-06-28 20:33                     ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-06-28 21:01                       ` Do Re Mi (was: Q on Text Properties popup menu-shouldn'titusethepointerposition, " Drew Adams
2005-06-29  0:42                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-06-29  3:59                     ` Do Re Mi (was: Q on Text Properties popup menu -shouldn'titusethepointerposition, " Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-29 14:52                       ` Do Re Mi (was: Q on Text Properties popup menu-shouldn'titusethepointerposition, " Drew Adams
2005-06-24 16:09 ` Q on Text Properties popup menu - shouldn't it use the pointer position, not the cursor position? Luc Teirlinck

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