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thing-at-mouse

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Message #182 received at 50256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, larsi <at> gnus.org, 50256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50256: thing-at-mouse
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:10:52 +0300

>>  > Thanks, but is that the best fix?  It would mean any other Lisp
>>  > program that needs to do something similar will have to use such
>>  > kludges.
>>  >
>>  > But if I'm the only one who thinks this isn't clean enough, I won't
>>  > object to this solution.  Just be sure to add comments explaining why
>>  > you do something as strange as that.
>>
>> Please explain why you think Juri's solution is a kludge and why it is
>> not clean.
>
> Because it extremely non-obvious why the code does something strange
> like that.

I see no other way to fix it.

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