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bug#13643: About symbolic prefix
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#13643: About symbolic prefix |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:23:12 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> In (info "(elisp) Active Keymaps"):
> When the key sequence starts with a mouse event (optionally preceded
> by a symbolic prefix), the active keymaps are determined based on the
> position in that event.
> I don't know what the "symbolic prefix" means here (maybe it means
> something like `down-mouse-1'), but I think it doesn't mean the
> `gnus-symbolic-argument' in Gnus. It is confusing here.
Good question. Maybe this is referring to the case where the mouse
event is on a side element, in which case the key sequence starts with
`header-line', `mode-line', `left-fringe', ...
Stefan