Re: Mode line menus

[Chong Yidong]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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).
>
> I don't see that here.
>
>> Nowadays, clicking on a menu button is expected to pop up a menu, which
>> is dismissed by clicking elsewhere or by selecting a menu item with
>> another click.
>
> This is exactly the behaviour I get.

Interesting.  Maybe there's a bug.

I'm running a GTK build (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1) on
latest trunk.

If I do a mouse-1 click-and-release on the major mode name, most of the
time it does not pop up a menu.  Instead, I get an echo area message

"mode-line down-mouse-1-"

and that's all.  Once in a while, the menu seems to pop up and stay up.
But this happens very occasionally.