Re: Keybinding for finding definition by mouse

[Tobias Gerdin]

Den 2018-07-09 kl. 19:09, skrev Eli Zaretskii:

> > For mouse users like myself this invoking this is probably the second
> > mouse common use of the mouse (after text selection) so I propose we add
> > a default binding for it in the global map. So which one?
> I wonder whether we should.  I think people who like to use the mouse
> for xref-find-definitions will bind the command to something handy,
> like C-mouse-1 (and give up on, or rebind, mouse-buffer-menu).  We
> cannot do that by default, and OTOH binding it to something like
> C-M-mouse-1 sounds too difficult to use (and then there's the problem
> of binding xref-pop-marker-stack).
>
> I'm also not convinced many people will want such a binding, as most
> of us use the keyboard for these commands.
Could this not partly be because up until now Emacs didn't supply such 
commands? (although as of the CEDET merge there is actually 
'semantic-ia-fast-mouse-jump' but since Emacs went in the xref direction 
I suspect few make use of it).

And whether it is in one's interest to use the keyboard or the mouse for 
these kind of commands is still is an open question (among others, see 
[1]). My observation from co-workers seems to indicate that using the 
mouse for this kind of functionality is very common and I think having a 
default binding would improve its discoverability (although I am aware 
that this is hardly an area of focus in Emacs).
> So I think we should leave this unbound by default, at least for now,
> and rely on people who want this on a mouse click to make their local
> changes.
Unless any of the above makes you reconsider I will not argue against 
this. I have submitted a pull request for similar kind of functionality 
to CIDER ([2]) where we have decided to add a default binding along with 
it so I was hoping to harmonize these with Emacs' xref (which CIDER 
doesn't make use of at the moment), but CIDER being out-of-tree there is 
obviously more leeway.

-Tobias
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14544571
[2]: https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/pull/2372