Re: Mode line menus

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Chong Yidong wrote:
> Currently, the menus accessible from the mode-line (e.g. by clicking on
> the major mode name) are bound to down-mouse-1.  Therefore, you have to
> hold down the mouse button after clicking the menus.  Releasing the
> mouse button immediately dismisses the menu, selecting the item the
> cursor was on (if any).
>
> My understanding is that this behavior is nowadays extremely
> non-standard.
>
> Is anyone attached to the old behavior?  If not, I'd like to switch to
> the standard behavior.


Hmm. with "modern" menus, you CAN still select an item by pressing down 
the mouse button (displaying the menu), moving the mouse, and releasing 
on a valid item, selecting the item and immediately dismissing the menu. 
You don't need to click twice.

BUT if you do "click" the button (i.e. press then release before 
selecting an item), the menu stays present, and is dismissed by clicking 
on an item to select it,  or by clicking outside the menu to dismiss 
without selection.