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24.0.50; (emacs) `Menu Mouse Clicks' conflicts with code obsolescence

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To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
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Subject: bug#7466: closed (24.0.50; (emacs) `Menu Mouse Clicks' conflicts
 with code obsolescence)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 20:45:02 +0000

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.0.50; (emacs) `Menu Mouse Clicks' conflicts with code obsolescence
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:51:11 -0800

The footnote on this manual page tells you how to put the mouse-3 menu
on mouse-3 instead of on C-mouse-3 (the default).  It tells you to bind
`mouse-popup-menubar-stuff'.

But in mouse.el, that function (as well as the other mouse-3 menu
functions) has been declared obsolete since 23.1.
 
There is no comment in the code indicating what now replaces these
functions - what to use instead.  And I find nothing in NEWS or NEWS.23
(or NEWS.22) about "mouse-3" or "popup".  Grepping the Lisp sources
didn't help either.

How are users supposed to know how to code this, now that these
functions are obsolete?  What is the right way to do it now?  Where in
the Lisp code is C-mouse-3 doted with menus (e.g. the major-mode
menubar menu)?
 

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2010-11-16 on 3249CTO
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags
-Ic:/imagesupport/include'
 

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 7466-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7466: 24.0.50; (emacs) `Menu Mouse Clicks' conflicts with
 code obsolescence
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 13:44:28 -0700

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> The footnote on this manual page tells you how to put the mouse-3 menu
> on mouse-3 instead of on C-mouse-3 (the default).  It tells you to bind
> `mouse-popup-menubar-stuff'.
>
> But in mouse.el, that function (as well as the other mouse-3 menu
> functions) has been declared obsolete since 23.1.
>
> There is no comment in the code indicating what now replaces these
> functions - what to use instead.  And I find nothing in NEWS or NEWS.23
> (or NEWS.22) about "mouse-3" or "popup".  Grepping the Lisp sources
> didn't help either.
>
> How are users supposed to know how to code this, now that these
> functions are obsolete?  What is the right way to do it now?  Where in
> the Lisp code is C-mouse-3 doted with menus (e.g. the major-mode
> menubar menu)?

This text is no longer there in the manual, presumably it has been
updated in the 12 years since this was reported.  I'm therefore closing
this bug report.

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