RE: Emacs-21.1/Motif - Control+mouse not registering

[Broadey Kevin-BKB003]

On further investigation this is not a new problem.

I rebuilt emacs-20.6 with the Motif 2.1.0 toolkit and I got the same problem.

Ain't commercial code great? (don't answer that)

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Broadey [mailto:Kevin_Broadey-BKB003@email.mot.com]
> Sent: 03 December 2001 12:31
> To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Emacs-21.1/Motif - Control+mouse not registering
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 21.1.4 (sparc-sun-solaris2.7, Motif Version 2.1.0)
>  of 2001-11-30 on bah128
> configured using `configure  
> --prefix=/org/users/kevinbr/gnu/emacs-21.1 
> --exec-prefix=/org/users/kevinbr/gnu/emacs-21.1/SunOS 
> --with-x-toolkit=motif'
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: nil
>   locale-coding-system: nil
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil
> 
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
> 
> PLEASE REPLY VIA EMAIL AS I DO NOT HAVE NEWSGROUP ACCESS.
> 
> 
> Running emacs -q -no-site-file under X-Windows, if I do
> control-mouse-1 to pop up the buffer menu (runs the command
> mouse-buffer-menu) and select a buffer from the list, then Emacs DOES
> NOT switch to the buffer when the mouse button is released.  However,
> if I do control-mouse-1 and release CONTROL before mouse-1 then the
> buffer switch occurs as expected.
> 
> Similarly, if I use mouse-1 to select some text in a fundamental-mode
> buffer and then use control-mouse-3 to pop up the Edit menu, selecting
> Cut an releasing mouse-3 has no effect, but if I release CONTROL
> before mouse-3 then the command works as expected.
> 
> This problem does not occur if Emacs is built with the Lucid toolkit.
> 
> I an running Emacs on a Solaris workstation from a remote
> X-Workstation - a Windoze-2000 Pro PC running Hummingbird Exceed.
> 
> Just tried using the Sun workstation's local display, mouse and
> keyboard.  The same problem occurs.
> 
> My guess is that the modified mouse-up event is being ignored.
> 
> --
> Kevin Broadey
>