Subject: Re: bug#17633: 24.3.91; mouse-drag-line: Symbol's function definition is void: mouse--remap-link-click-p

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 16:11:02 -0400

> But why does it hurt to include the window's point in the click?

Because mouse-posn-property then checks the text-property at point.

> Other kinds of click on non-text parts do include some kind of
> position, so why is this one a problem?

Usually those positions are at least somewhat related to the position of
the mouse.  But indeed mouse-posn-property should probably ignore the
posn-point info for the other non-text parts.

> Btw, your patch won't compile, because 'textpos' is not a Lisp object.

Yes, it was just to show the intention.

        Stefan