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

[Stefan Kangas]

Alan Donovan <adonovan@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.