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interactive xref-find-definitions-at-mouse

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Message #38 received at 71435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Alan Donovan <adonovan <at> google.com>, Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 71435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#71435: interactive xref-find-definitions-at-mouse
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 07:44:57 -0700

Alan Donovan <adonovan <at> google.com> writes:

>> ?? This works for me:
>>  (global-set-key [C-down-mouse-1] 'xref-find-definitions-at-mouse)
>
> Ah, I remember the problem now: if the point is at position A and the mouse
> click occurs at some unrelated position B, plain old
> xref-find-definitions-at-mouse will use position A as the basis of the
> query, which is most surprising: it might be a non-identifier, in
> which case you get an error, or it might be an unrelated identifier, in
> which case you navigate to the wrong place.
>
> So perhaps my request should instead have been expressed as a bug report:
> xref-find-definitions-at-mouse uses the point instead of the mouse event
> position.

I can't reproduce that in emacs -Q.

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