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Re: Context menus and mouse-3


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Context menus and mouse-3
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 21:56:56 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> Another necessary change to emulate the behavior of modern apps is
>> to rebind mouse-save-then-kill to S-mouse-1.
>>
>> Maybe it's possible to add a delay so that the current binding 
>> [S-down-mouse-1]
>> could pop up mouse-appearance-menu only after a delay, e.g. 450ms.
>> But on releasing S-mouse-1 immediately, it could use mouse-save-then-kill
>> as modern apps do.
>
> Once again, I think lumping such different commands on the same mouse
> gesture controlled by some more-or-less arbitrary timeout is not a
> good UI.  We should avoid that as much as we possible can.

Then maybe it could be enabled by the same mode e.g. 'modern-mouse-mode'.



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