Subject: Re: bug#71435: interactive xref-find-definitions-at-mouse

From: Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:11:32 +0000

Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 11:28:34 -0400
>>> From:  Alan Donovan via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
>>>
>>> Many editors allow a mouse-click operation on an identifier, plus a suitable modifier key, to jump to the
>>> declaration of the symbol. Emacs provides xref-find-definitions-at-mouse, but I couldn't find a way to make it
>>> work in response to a click.
>>
>> ??? This works for me:
>>
>>   (global-set-key [C-down-mouse-1] 'xref-find-definitions-at-mouse)
>
> Should we consider adding such a key binding by default?
>
> Is that a feature that users want?

Perhaps one could add a global minor mode and mention it in the menu bar?

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