Re: clipboard/selection: customization vs. rebinding

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Shouldn't we do something like the patch below?
>> 
>> -(global-set-key [left-fringe mouse-1]       'mouse-set-point)
>> -(global-set-key [right-fringe mouse-1]      'mouse-set-point)
>> +(global-set-key [left-fringe mouse-1]       [mouse-1])
>> +(global-set-key [right-fringe mouse-1]      [mouse-1])

> That doesn't work for mouse-yank-primary.  Binding [left-fringe mouse-2]
> to [mouse-2], and doing mouse-2 in the fringe, gives an error:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "mouse-yank-primary must be bound
> to an event with parameters")
>   call-interactively(mouse-yank-primary nil nil)

> The problem is that mouse events are not passed along to keyboard macro
> bindings.

Hmm... so maybe we should do

   (define-key function-key-map [left-fringe mouse-2] [mouse-2])

instead.  The point is simply that by default clicks in the fringe
should fallback to doing the same as clicks in the text area.


        Stefan