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bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows dow
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 10:31:45 +0200 |
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:33:00 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 29478@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > > > The down mouse-button event is no longer listed along with the up
> > > > event when you use `C-h k' with a click event. Dunno whether this
> > was
> > > > by design or is an oversight.
> >
> > I think if you press and hold the mouse button for (default) half a
> > second, when you finally release it, C-h k will report the down mouse
> > event. At least this is how GPM behaves for me on a Linux tty.
>
> Ah yes, thanks. I see that now on MS Windows too.
>
> > This seems to make sense, because anything bound to a down mouse
> > event is going to be something like a drag event, where the mouse
> > button is held for an extended period of time.
>
> Sorry, no, I don't buy that. I mean it's probably true that
> most such bindings involve dragging. But (1) a user who wants
> to check what `mouse-N' does won't necessarily use it the same
> way when checking with `C-h k' as when using it for its real
> purpose. And (2) the problem with this is that it is not
> easily discoverable.
>
> I've used Emacs for quite a while. OK, I expected both up and
> down to be documented. But even I would likely never have
> thought to hold the button pressed for a long time before
> releasing, just to see what `C-h k' had to tell me.
Alan, can we arrange for the doc string of mouse-N clicks (with or
without all the possible modifiers) to say something like
For documentation of the corresponding mouse-down event, click and
hold the mouse button longer than %s sec.
(where %s gets replaced by double-click-time)?
- bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event, Drew Adams, 2017/12/01
- bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/01
- bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/09
- bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event, Alan Mackenzie, 2017/12/09
- bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event, Alan Mackenzie, 2017/12/22
- bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/23
- bug#29478: [Patch] bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event, Alan Mackenzie, 2017/12/23
- bug#29478: [Patch] bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/23
- bug#29478: [Patch] bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event, Stefan Monnier, 2017/12/23
- bug#29478: [Patch] bug#29478: 26.0.90; `C-h k' followed by mouse clicks no longer shows down event, Alan Mackenzie, 2017/12/23