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

[Luc Teirlinck]

Drew Adams wrote:

   I'm still unclear about S-down-mouse-1, however. What do you mean by "where
   you release it (S-mouse-1) determines what happens next"? Maybe I'm missing
   something because I'm using Emacs on Windows?

On GNU/Linux with the default Lucid menu widgets, if you press
S-down-mouse-1, the Font menu comes up.  It has three submenus: Misc,
Courier and Fontset.  If you keep the mouse pressed down and move the
mouse over one of these, the summenu pops up.  Say we move it to
Fontset.  Then we see `default' and `standard 16-dot medium'.  If you
move the mouse to `standard 16-dot medium' and then release it, the
fontset changes to `standard 16-dot medium'.

Sincerely,

Luc.