Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 4) Right click: (Probably it is the most lacking functionality and
>> surprising for any user not using the terminal.) Right click is expected
>> to bring a panel with the most common operations. It is useful, fast
>> and somehow standard since 1995 while removing most of the needs of the
>> toolbar which takes precious vertical space.
>
> We have this on C-mouse-2 and C-mouse-3.  Putting those on mouse-2 and
> mouse-3 would fly in the face of pasting text from the window-system
> selection, which is something a text editor cannot possibly disable by
> default.  Unless we are willing to abandon support for selections,
> that is (which I guess what the "modern" editors did?).

`down-mouse-3` is currently basically unused, so we could definitely
make it popup a context menu without interfering with current bindings.

I proposed a patch along those lines some years ago.


        Stefan