Subject: Re: bug#75219: 31.0.50; mouse-2 mode-line binding overridden by mouse-1-click-follows-link
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:26:30 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:03:01 -0500
> 
> > OK, I will therefore change the behavior only for mode-line and
> > header-line clicks.  It is also safer, in cases some Lisp out there
> > relies on the current (mis)behavior.
> 
> +1

Now done on the master branch, and closing the bug.

> > That's true (it's documented in the ELisp reference), but faces are
> > somewhat different because we merge faces from available sources,
> > whereas keymap properties cannot be "merged".
> 
> Agreed modulo "s/cannot/are not/" (we definitely *could* combine them,
> at the cost of some extra work).

Right.