Re: Tip: tty mode-line popup menus

[Gerd Möllmann]

Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi> writes:

> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I don't like the tty behavior. It is fiddly with a track pad, which I
>> normally use, leading to inadvertent menu selections.
>
> There is a similar kind of behavior with normal (pull-down) tty menus as
> well.  If you do:
>
>  $ emacs -nw Q
>  M-x xterm-mouse-mode RET
>  {click on Tools menu}
>  {click again on Tools menu (do not move the mouse between clicks)}
>
> then you will get grep command, and I'd say inadvertently.  (Obviously
> this was on xterm, but I suspect the same happens on other ttys.)
>

Yes, I can reproduce that here on macOS.

> But if you move the mouse between clicks, even slightly, then the menu
> selection is cleared, and you won't get grep command.  The menu is
> simply closed, as I'd expect.
>
> This has been itching me for quite some time, but not sufficiently
> enough to make me write a patch.  I'm not sure if this is a bug or
> feature, anyway.

Hard to believe that it's a feature. How about submitting a bug report
with M-x report-emacs-bug? (And then writing a patch :-)).