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Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group
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David Kastrup |
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Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group |
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Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:31:02 +0200 |
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Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:
> I have now enabled Xterm Mouse mode by default in xterm style
> terminal emulators, as requested. As I pointed out before, this is
> not without problems.
>
> One of the worst kind of problems occurs when you click on the mode
> line. You get no tooltips or echo area messages to tell you what is
> going to happen, because, even with Xterm Mouse mode enabled, Emacs
> does not respond to mouse over. So basically, when you click on the
> mode line you have no idea what is going to happen.
Tooltips are an optional help. A lot of people make do without them.
XEmacs has no working tooltips even today. So this is not so very
tragic.
> The main reason for wanting to click on the mode line is to resize
> the window. Should we not disable all the other fireworks in the
> mode line when we can not warn the user about them, that is, when
> not running under a window system?
The "fireworks" are not destructive and usually deliver a text message
what happened. I don't see much of a problem here.
We might want assign a mouse-button+modifier combination to explictly
providing a tooltip in the echo area: that way Xterm users can
"explore" things by clicking wildly in a similar way as mouse-over
enabled people can. Since point-positioning is not useful on the
modeline, one could even use mouse-1 (when used undragged) for that,
reserving mouse-2 for the actual action. That way people will tend
not to trigger something accidentally.
> A basic problem with Xterm Mouse mode is that mouse clicks are
> enabled, but the usual tools to tell you that mouse clicks are going
> to do something special and what that is (mouse face and tooltips or
> echo area messages) are not.
I don't see much tragedy here, like I said.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, (continued)
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Kim F. Storm, 2005/04/15
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/14
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/04/14
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/04/13
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/04/11
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/04/11
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/12
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/04/12
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/04/12
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Stefan Monnier, 2005/04/12
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/13
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Stefan Monnier, 2005/04/10
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/10
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/05
- Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group, David Kastrup, 2005/04/06