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bug#56779: 29.0.50; [wishlist] Function to check if a mouse-button is pr
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Po Lu |
Subject: |
bug#56779: 29.0.50; [wishlist] Function to check if a mouse-button is pressed |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:18:40 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:
> Currently, to know if a mouse button is being pressed, one has to keep
> track of state by cleverly utilising [down-mouse-N] and [mouse-N] events
> (see [1]). It is certainly no easy task, it would be really nice if
> Emacs had the equivalent of `xinput --query-state <mouse-id>' [2]
> (the implementation of which can be found in state.c in xinput's
> source).
Relying on the X input extension is not portable, not only outside of
X, but also inside Emacs, which supports being run on X servers where
the input extension is not available.
How about a function that returns a list of mouse buttons currently held
down on a given terminal? That would be very straightforward to
implement.