Re: New Context Menu

[Ergus]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 02:26:08PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> > Cc: spacibba@aol.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:13:59 +0300
> >
> > > I'm talking about the _behavior_, not about the bindings.  The
> > > behavior in the other cases is that releasing the mouse button doesn't
> > > pop down the menu in the other cases; with context menus, it does.
> > > That is sub-optimal UI, as users who don't expect that will see the
> > > menu flash momentarily and disappear, at least on TTY frames.  We
> > > should fix this so the context menus behave like the other drop-down
> > > menus we have.
> >
> > I don't understand how the behavior of the context menu could be
> > different from the behavior of the old binding [C-down-mouse-3]
> > when both have the same implementation.
>
> I cannot say I understand that in detail, either, but the fact is it
> does.  Maybe it's translation from C-down-mouse-3 to C-mouse-3?
No. C-down-mouse-3 is a modified mouse event; emacs gets it but not the
equivalent up events (C-up-mouse-3 for example) but it gets somehow the
up-mouse-3 event.

For example:

Try C-down-mouse-3 then Release Control and after that release the mouse
button. You will see a similar issue.

> > Does it pop down for you if you click [C-down-mouse-3] that displays
> > the local/global menu?
>
> No.  When I release the mouse button after clicking C-mouse-3, the
> menu stays displayed until I select a menu item (or dismiss the menu
> with the likes of C-g).