Re: Changing default mouse bindings (was: poplife-mode)

[Charles A. Roelli]

> From: Alex <address@hidden>
> Cc: Drew Adams <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,
>       "John Wiegley" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:08:12 -0600
> 
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> AFAICT, it's the only way, with your approach, to see
> >> the region you will act on get highlighted.  Are you
> >> relegating your approach to menus that don't have items
> >> that act on the region?
> >
> > My suggestion is for a context menu.  I.e. a menu of things to apply
> > locally.  Nothing specifically to do with the region.  The region is but
> > one particular kind of "local" thing (and the down-mouse-3 event is not
> > necessarily placed near the region).  I don't expect that the region
> > would/will be the main use of this functionality.
> >
> >
> >         Stefan
> 
> Is it completely out of the question to just bind right-click directly
> to this context menu by default instead of using double clicks or long
> clicks?  If so, will it ever be considered?  It would be a shame if
> Emacs is never able to shed some of its old baggage.

I hope it would be considered.  Originally I thought it would be best
to work around the current bindings (via either the long press or
double click of mouse-3), but if we can instead provide multiple
functionalities with mouse-3 by differentiating between simple clicks
and drags as Yuri suggested, that could be an even better solution.