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Cannot answer minibuffer question with just one click

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Cannot answer minibuffer question with just one click
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 01:20:17 +0800

User cannot answer this minibuffer question,
  How many articles from mail.misc (635 default):
with just one mouse click.

I must hit

   RET (translated from <return>) runs the command exit-minibuffer (found
   in minibuffer-local-map), which is an interactive compiled Lisp
   function in ‘minibuffer.el’.

   It is bound to C-j, RET, <menu-bar> <minibuf> <return>.

   (exit-minibuffer)

   Terminate this minibuffer argument.

Note I have menu-bar turned off.

And even if I have it turned on, one click on the word "default" etc.
would beat poking around in menus.

Also,

   Save file /nibblesford.txt? (y, n, !, ., q, C-r, C-f, d or C-h)

Do allow the user to click on a letter too.

Message #8 received at 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52556: Cannot answer minibuffer question with just one click
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:40:32 +0200

> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>  <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 01:20:17 +0800
> 
> User cannot answer this minibuffer question,
>   How many articles from mail.misc (635 default):
> with just one mouse click.
> 
> I must hit
> 
>    RET (translated from <return>) runs the command exit-minibuffer (found
>    in minibuffer-local-map), which is an interactive compiled Lisp
>    function in ‘minibuffer.el’.
> 
>    It is bound to C-j, RET, <menu-bar> <minibuf> <return>.
> 
>    (exit-minibuffer)
> 
>    Terminate this minibuffer argument.
> 
> Note I have menu-bar turned off.
> 
> And even if I have it turned on, one click on the word "default" etc.
> would beat poking around in menus.
> 
> Also,
> 
>    Save file /nibblesford.txt? (y, n, !, ., q, C-r, C-f, d or C-h)
> 
> Do allow the user to click on a letter too.

Please describe what you did to trigger the problem.  It is not at all
evident from what you told in your report.

Message #11 received at 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52556: Cannot answer minibuffer question with just one click
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 01:54:19 +0800

EZ> Please describe what you did to trigger the problem.

RET (translated from <return>) runs the command
gnus-group-select-group, giving
>> How many articles from mail.misc (635 default):
(Sure, just hit RET again. But how about a one click solution too?)

C-x s runs the command save-some-buffers, giving
>> Save file /nibblesford.txt? (y, n, !, ., q, C-r, C-f, d or C-h)

Message #14 received at 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52556: Cannot answer minibuffer question with just one click
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 20:59:33 +0200

> User cannot answer this minibuffer question,
>   How many articles from mail.misc (635 default):
> with just one mouse click.

Emacs 28 comes with the context menu where you can select
an item to exit the minibuffer with one mouse click.

Message #17 received at 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52556: Cannot answer minibuffer question with just one click
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:47:42 +0800

>>>>> "JL" == Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:
>> User cannot answer this minibuffer question,
>> How many articles from mail.misc (635 default):
>> with just one mouse click.

JL> Emacs 28 comes with the context menu where you can select
JL> an item to exit the minibuffer with one mouse click.

Context menu? Sounds like two clicks.
(My emacs-version "27.1")

Message #20 received at 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52556: Cannot answer minibuffer question with just one click
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 19:13:39 +0200

>>> User cannot answer this minibuffer question,
>>> How many articles from mail.misc (635 default):
>>> with just one mouse click.
>
> JL> Emacs 28 comes with the context menu where you can select
> JL> an item to exit the minibuffer with one mouse click.
>
> Context menu? Sounds like two clicks.
> (My emacs-version "27.1")

No, just one click: press the right button
and release it on the menu item "Minibuf -> Enter".

Message #23 received at 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52556: Cannot answer minibuffer question with just one click
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 13:46:39 +0800

>>>>> "JL" == Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

JL> No, just one click: press the right button
JL> and release it on the menu item "Minibuf -> Enter".

Still takes poking around in menus for what should be a simple point and
click operation.

Message #26 received at 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 52556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52556: Cannot answer minibuffer question with just one click
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:58:14 +0100

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> User cannot answer this minibuffer question,
>   How many articles from mail.misc (635 default):
> with just one mouse click.

I think doing so would be highly unintuitive, so I don't think we should
be adding magic mouse-1 clicks to the minibuffer questsions, and I'm
closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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