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

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Message #46 received at 17633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 17633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17633: 24.3.91;
 mouse-drag-line: Symbol's function definition is
 void:	mouse--remap-link-click-p
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 17:57:47 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 17633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 10:18:57 -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.
> > It shouldn't do that.  This sounds like a problem with
> > mouse-posn-property rather than with make_lispy_position.
> 
> In the case of fringe clicks, I agree that these events's
> buffer-position info is worthwhile and that mouse-posn-property should
> ignore it, but in the case of mode-line clicks, the click is completely
> unrelated to the particular position of point at that moment, os
> including that info is just asking for trouble,

It's not necessarily unrelated.  Imagine some feature that wants to
change the effect of such a click depending on point.  There's nothing
especially hilarious about that.

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