bug#7466: closed (24.0.50; (emacs) `Menu Mouse Clicks' conflicts with code obsolescence)

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> 24.0.50; (emacs) `Menu Mouse Clicks' conflicts with code obsolescence
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> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:51:11 -0800
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> 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'.
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> But in mouse.el, that function (as well as the other mouse-3 menu
> functions) has been declared obsolete since 23.1.
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> 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.
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> 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)?
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> 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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> Re: bug#7466: 24.0.50; (emacs) `Menu Mouse Clicks' conflicts with code obsolescence
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> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
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> > 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'.
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> > But in mouse.el, that function (as well as the other mouse-3 menu
> > functions) has been declared obsolete since 23.1.
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> > 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.
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> > 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)?
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> 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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