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Re: when to bind *down-mouse* vs *mouse*?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: when to bind *down-mouse* vs *mouse*?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:11:26 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> When is it recommended to bind *down-mouse* and when is it recommended to
> bind just *mouse*? If the intention is to bind a mouse _click_ event (as
> opposed to a drag), then which is generally the key sequence to bind?

This is not an Emacs-specific question.

>  - S-down-mouse-1 is bound to mouse-set-font.

Menus are usually popped on down-mouse so that you can do:
press-select-release rather than click-select-click.


        Stefan


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