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Re: Suggestion to add clickable text activation function to Emacs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Suggestion to add clickable text activation function to Emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:01:23 +0300 |
> From: Robert Weiner <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:43:03 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but how will this be different from
> calling the binding of the click?
>
> The binding of what click? mouse-1, mouse-2, RET, some other key?
Whatever key or mouse button that you are interesting in, I suppose.
> Look at the doc in "(elisp)Clickable
> Text" and you will see there are many ways to activate such text as explained
> there. If we want clickable text
> actions to be runnable programmatically (no user clicks), then there needs to
> be a single function that can
> determine what action a user click would have performed and returns that
> action or performs it. In my original
> message, I noted that push-button does this for buttons, so the issue is the
> need for one for non-button
> clickable text. Does that clarify the issue?
No, not really. The normal APIs to find a binding of a click or a
keypress should give you the function which would be performed. But
you most probably already know that. So I guess I don't see clearly
the use case and its context. Could you perhaps describe such a use
case where you'd need the function you think you lack?
Thanks.