Re: address@hidden: Incorrect help for mouse click]

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Would someone please DTRT and ack this message?
>
> From: "Otto Maddox" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Incorrect help for mouse click
> To: address@hidden
>
> Go into a dired buffer.  Hover the mouse pointer over a file or
> directory name.  The popup tooltip says "mouse-1: visit this file in
> another window".  But doing `C-h k' and then clicking with mouse-1
> displays *Help* for <down-mouse-1> (mouse-drag-region).  I don't know
> if this is "technically" correct, but in any case, it is very
> confusing.

It is not incorrect, since there is both a `down-mouse-1' binding and
a `mouse-1' binding (actually, `mouse-2' translated to `mouse-1' by
the mouse-1-click-follows-link mechanism.)  Maybe the solution is for
C-h k to also display the mouse-X binding when it detects a
down-mouse-X event.