Re: Buffer menu fix

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:18:18 -0400
> 
> (defun Buffer-menu-make-sort-button (column ...)
>   ...
>   (propertize ...
>     'keymap (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))
>                   (fun `(lambda ()
>                           (interactive)
>                           (Buffer-menu-sort ,column))))
>               (define-key map [header-line mouse-1] fun)
>               ...))
> 
> When you bind a function to a key, you can't specify any additional
> arguments to pass to that function.  So you have to define one
> function for each of the possible values of `column' in the code.
> 
> The only way I can think of to get around this is to bind to a single
> function that tries to re-construct the value of `column' based on
> where the mouse was clicked.  But that seems like a strange thing to
> do -- you're throwing away information that you had (i.e., the value
> of `column'), only to do a lot of work find out what it was later on.

There must be some kind of misunderstanding here.  I understand that
you need to know where the mouse was clicked, but that information is
stored in the mouse event that invokes the function, so if you use
`(interactive "e")', you will have access to that information inside
the function.  Given this, what information is thrown away?