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23.3; C-mouse-2 does not work on a scrollbar

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: pinard <at> iro.umontreal.ca (Fran=e7ois Pinard)

Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.3

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10666 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, François Pinard <pinard <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#10666: 23.3; C-mouse-2 does not work on a scrollbar
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:58:46 -0500

>> The manual should be amended, then, to explain that this command might
>> not be available, depending of the toolkit in use.  Or else, the command
>> might be made to work independently of the toolkit.
> Certainly.
> Jan, is it a Gtk limitation that C-mouse-2 in the scroll-bar does not
> split the window at that point (in which case I will document it); or
> could this feature be added at some point?

AFAIK this feature only works for non-toolkit scroll bars (because
toolkit scrollbars handle all the scrollbar interactions and don't let
Emacs know when the user hits C-mouse-2 somewhere in the scrollbar).


        Stefan
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