Re: mouse-yank-at-point in Comint modes

[Chong Yidong]

JD Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> COMINT modes like shell inhibit the behavior of mouse-yank-at-point.  
>
> M-x shell
> M-x set-variable [Ret] mouse-yank-at-point [Ret] t
> % echo foo [C-a]
> [Select text in another buffer and middle click into shell buffer, after
> 'foo']
>
> Text is not yanked at point.  This is a new behavior of Emacs 22.

I'm a bit confused about what's going on in this part of the code.
This issue has come up before:

    2005-03-24  Stefan Monnier  <address@hidden>

      * comint.el (comint-insert-input): Obey mouse-yank-at-point.

It's not clear to me how subsequent changes broke this.  Naively, I'd
propose the following change; are there subtleties here that would
make it not work?

*** emacs/lisp/comint.el.~1.352.~       2006-12-09 10:48:30.000000000 -0500
--- emacs/lisp/comint.el        2006-12-09 13:15:19.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 805,811 ****
  (defun comint-insert-input (event)
    "In a Comint buffer, set the current input to the previous input at point."
    (interactive "e")
!   (mouse-set-point event)
    (let ((pos (point)))
      (if (not (eq (field-at-pos pos) 'input))
        ;; No input at POS, fall back to the global definition.
--- 805,811 ----
  (defun comint-insert-input (event)
    "In a Comint buffer, set the current input to the previous input at point."
    (interactive "e")
!   (unless mouse-yank-at-point (mouse-set-point event))
    (let ((pos (point)))
      (if (not (eq (field-at-pos pos) 'input))
        ;; No input at POS, fall back to the global definition.