Re: New Context Menu

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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?

> 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).