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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: address@hidden: Customize value menu doesn't recognizemouse-2] |
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Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:10:41 -0400 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:33:41 -0700
>
> > From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> >
> > On GNU/Linux, probably with Lucid menus, I can select from
> > the menu using any of the three mouse buttons.
> >
> > (The latter part happens only on MS-Windows.)
> >
> > It sounds like a bug in the way menus work in Emacs on Windows.
>
> What Richard described for the other platforms is exactly the behavior I
> requested when I filed this bug.
I'm not sure you interpret what Richard wrote correctly: I think he
was talking about the value menu dropped when one presses on a button
inside a Customize buffer, whereas you seem to interpret that as a
more general statement about menus in general. See below about the
latter.
> It sounds to me like the fix for the more
> annoying bug (which I also reported, I believe) was not the right fix.
> Wouldn't the right fix have been to make mouse-2 select a menu item, just
> like on GNU/Linux? That would take care of both bugs, and bring Windows into
> line with the other platforms.
Actually, what happens when you click mouse-2 in a menu on X depends
on the toolkit, AFAICS. Xt and GTK indeed behave like you say, but
Motif behaves like MS-Windows: mouse-2 is ignored in menus, and you
need to use mouse-1. I looked in a couple of other GUI applications
on Windows, and it looks like they ignore mouse-2 in menus.
With buttons in Customize, it's different: there all toolkits I could
try behave as Richard described, probably because Emacs itself handles
the click.
So, at least for menus in general, this doesn't sound like a behavior
aspect that is consistent across platforms.
> IOW, "Please leave things alone" ... "Done" sounds like a quick cop-out, to
> me.
Richard asked to do nothing, so I complied.
> I can't speak to hard it might be to fix this properly, so that Windows will
> DTRT, like GNU/Linux, but I can speak to what TRT would be for the user:
> exactly what Richard described.
Even though other GUI programs behave on Windows like we do now?
- Re: address@hidden: Customize value menu doesn't recognizemouse-2],
Eli Zaretskii <=
- RE: address@hidden: Customize value menu doesn'trecognizemouse-2], Drew Adams, 2006/08/01
- Re: address@hidden: Customize value menu doesn'trecognizemouse-2], Eli Zaretskii, 2006/08/01
- RE: address@hidden: Customize value menudoesn'trecognizemouse-2], Drew Adams, 2006/08/01
- Re: address@hidden: Customize value menudoesn'trecognizemouse-2], Eli Zaretskii, 2006/08/01
- RE: address@hidden: Customize valuemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2], Drew Adams, 2006/08/01
- Re: address@hidden: Customize valuemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2], Eli Zaretskii, 2006/08/01
- RE: address@hidden: Customizevaluemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2], Drew Adams, 2006/08/01
- Re: address@hidden: Customizevaluemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2], Eli Zaretskii, 2006/08/01
- Re: address@hidden: Customizevaluemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2], rms, 2006/08/01
- Re: address@hidden: Customizevaluemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2], Eli Zaretskii, 2006/08/02