Re: Suggestion to add clickable text activation function to Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Weiner <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:42:15 -0400
> 
> Emacs allows for the definition of buffer regions that represent "clickable 
> text", see "(elisp)Clickable Text".
> One type of clickable text is a button which can be programmatically 
> activated (have its action executed) with
> the push-button function.
> 
> But there does not seem to be a function to programmatically activate other 
> types of clickable text. This is a
> suggestion that such a function be added to Emacs. It would be similar to 
> push-button but would account for
> all the ways clickable text can be activated. Right now it appears that 
> non-button clickable text can be
> activated essentially only interactively, e.g. with a press of RET or mouse-2 
> or invocation of their key bindings.
> But that is only one of many possible ways of activating clickable text.

Maybe I'm missing something, but how will this be different from
calling the binding of the click?