Re: artist-mouse-choose-operation

[Tomas Abrahamsson <tab@lysator.liu.se>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>>> The function in the Subject calls x-popup-menu, evidently under the
>>> assumption that if Emacs can use a mouse, it also supports menus.  But
>>> that assumption is false: Emacs configured --without-x can have mouse
>>> support, e.g. via gpm-mouse, but does not have x-popup-menu.
>
>> Yes, I agree this is a bug. Below is a patch for fixing the bug and a
>> proposal for a ChangeLog entry.
>
> Makes me wonder: is it really the only place where this kind of problem
> shows up?  I think not.

I grepped the sources briefly, and found only one call to tmm-prompt
outside of tmm.el, in cperl-mode.el.  I found 34 calls to x-popup-menu.

(I did: "find . -name \*.el | xargs egrep '\(x-popup-menu' | wc -l".)


BRs
Tomas