GNU bug report logs - #20590
mouse-highlight does not do as documented

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20590 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20590: mouse-highlight does not do as documented
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 22:28:38 +0300

> Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 11:09:33 -0700
> From: Samuel Wales <samologist <at> gmail.com>
> 
> mouse-highlight does not do as documented, which seems to be a bug.
> 
> i confirmed with emacs -Q.  i did not find a similar bug report.
> 
> ===
> 
> "If the value is an integer, highlighting is only shown
> after moving the mouse, while keyboard input turns off the
> highlight even when the mouse is over the clickable text."
> 
> in my usage, highlighting shows when mouse has not moved.
> it also shows when there is keyboard input.

I cannot reproduce this.  You didn't show a precise recipe you used,
so here's mine:

 . emacs -Q
 . C-h v mouse-highlight RET
 . move the mouse pointer above the hyper-link labeled "C source code"
   and observe the highlight
 . type some character -- the highlight stays on
 . M-x set-variable RET mouse-highlight RET 1 RET
 . type some character -- the highlight goes off
 . move the mouse pointer a bit -- the highlight goes on

So the highlight behaves as documented for me.

For the record, I tried both Emacs 24.4, which is what you seem to
have, and the latest development sources.

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