Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Ergus]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 06:13:38PM +0700, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 05:15, Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> I want to clarify an important detail here. Right click is expected to
> display a *context menu* and the context menu is expected to contain
> commands that are related to the object that received the right click.
> This does not always correlate with “the most common operations”.
>
> Right-clicking a misspelled word offers a list of possible
> corrections. Right-clicking with a highlighted region offers Cut and
> Copy. (Actually, Cut/Copy/Paste are always on the context menu for
> text editors, and get enabled/disabled depending on availability.) In
> a programming mode, right-clicking an identifier could offer
> xref-find-definitions and xref-find-references.
>
> Applications made with greater attention to UI design also extend the
> context menu functionality to other UI elements. Right-clicking a
> toolbar offers to hide or customize it. Right-clicking a tab offers to
> save or close the document.
>
> Implementing a context menu in Emacs is not a simple matter of binding
> <mouse-3> to any of the menus displayed by <C-mouse-1…3>. Someone™
> needs to pick things that are relevant in each context. More likely,
> each major mode needs to pick things that are appropriate in its
> buffers.

Totally agree (maybe not properly explained in my text).

So far there is some work already done on external packages and the
mode-specific menus have some information about the context.

We only need to set that in a smarter way. It is not that complex so
far, at least for the text part. But this goes beyond my capabilities
and I don't think that the experts are convinced yet (for the moment).