bug#23653: 25.1.50; ‘<mouse-1>’ in gnus-article-buffer (and probably somewhere else) behaves wrong

[Stephen Berman]

merge 23571 23653
thanks

On Mon, 30 May 2016 03:26:37 +0300 Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com> wrote:

> Steps to reproduce:
>
> ‘M-x gnus’, open any article, press and release a first mouse button
> (left on right-handed mouse, ‘<mouse-1>’) somewhere in article buffer
> but not on any clickable element (link).
>
> Actual result: selection is activated, point starts to follow mouse, as
> if the button were pressed and not released.  I have to press ‘C-g’ or
> something else to cancel it.
>
> Expected result: point is positioned.
>
> This bug seems to be introduced by this commit [0].
>
> [0]
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/lisp/wid-edit.el?id=72166f2f3dba18f1217c666574032f5a0351ed65
>
>
> GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
> Repository revision: 190942baeff3f541abf2a937e0fb4d3f9ea104be

This is bug#23571.

Steve Berman