From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: M Jared Finder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Binding a command to the down-event of a toolbar button Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:40:01 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144302077 16576 80.91.229.2 (6 Apr 2006 05:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 05:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 06 07:41:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRNF4-0005SY-9X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:41:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRNF3-0003yr-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FRNEC-0003PG-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FRNE9-0003OG-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:40:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRNE8-0003OB-O5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FRNHo-000706-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:44:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FRNE0-0005Jh-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:40:08 +0200 Original-Received: from dsl001-150-235.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([72.1.150.235]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:40:08 +0200 Original-Received: from jared by dsl001-150-235.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:40:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl001-150-235.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060228) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52465 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > So then you're okay with adding a way to distinguish between mouse-1, > mouse-2 and mouse-3 events, and down and up events? > > I am talking about drag events. Only about drag events. > Please do not confuse separate issues. I feel like you are evading my questions. The original post I replied to was about down events, not drag events. I brought up drag events as a similar extension that would be useful in addition. Can you please give a direct answer to the following question. If you have different reasons for different parts, state each reason: Why are you against adding the necessary code to allow alternate mouse keys, distinguishing between down and up events, and drag events to be added? I can think of multiple reasons why you *might* not want to add these events: * It'd take too much time and be too complicated to implement. * It'd be difficult to integrate into the existing code base. * I don't like it; it's not a proven UI style. * We're trying to get to a release of Emacs 22. If you're not against adding such functionality, I'd rather just code up a patch and stop talking about its merits. At worst, the extra functionality is just left unused. -- MJF