Re: Changing default mouse bindings

[Stefan Monnier]

> No, that sounds like a feature. In general, showing the context menu
> on a mouse up makes it possible to perform several different gestures
> of varying complexity:

> * Simple secondary click: mouse down, followed by a movement not
> exceeding a few pixels, followed by mouse up. This normally just shows
> the context menu.
> * Secondary drag-select: mouse down at a position A in text buffer,
> followed by a movement across buffer text to another position B,
> followed by mouse up. Normally selects a region spanning from A up to
> B and shows the context menu applicable to it.
> * Secondary drag-and-drop: mouse down within a marked region, followed
> by movement to a position outside the region, possibly in a different
> window, frame or application, followed by mouse up. Shows a menu that
> offers multiple actions that could be done to the region and the
> target position (move or copy text between buffers; move, copy, hard-
> or symlink files across the file system; feed text or file as input to
> a program).
> * Mouse gestures: mouse down, followed by movement in a well-defined
> geometric shape, followed by mouse up. The action performed then
> depends on the shape of movement.

Funnily enough, that still leaves "mouse down, with (almost) no movement
and stay there for a while" unused so it can be used for a "context menu
on long-mouse-down".


        Stefan