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Allow in tabulated lists to resize columns with the mouse

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Message #13 received at 54905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: laszlomail <at> protonmail.com, 54905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54905: Allow in tabulated lists to resize columns with the
 mouse
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:12:05 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:04:24 +0200
> Cc: 54905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Kiss Dénes <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm not a fan of using the mouse in general, but when during browsing
> > tables you want to resize columns, it is more natural to grab some
> > handle with the mouse at the edge of the column and drag to resize it,
> > than doing it from the keyboard.
> 
> Yes, that would be very nice.
> 
> Does anybody know the state of Emacs' mouse dragging support for
> something like this?  Do we still need to...  er...  bind down-mouse-1
> and then write all the code to do stuff outselves with track-mouse?  Or
> has Emacs grown some more high-level code to bind dragging events?

What's wrong with drag-mouse-1 etc.?  Or am I misunderstanding the
question?

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