Re: Context menus and mouse-3 [was: Changes for emacs 28]

[Juri Linkov]

> Seriously, read `Mouse Commands' if you haven't
> already, and give it a try.

Mouse support is poor in Emacs, this is the reason
why I don't use the mouse in Emacs.  More below:

> Double-click (`mouse-1') on a word, then click
> `mouse-3' on another word. The selection picks up
> whole words, from the first through the last you
> clicked.

In other apps, the same is achieved by double-click
(`mouse-1') on a word, then double-click the same
(`mouse-1') on another word while holding down the Shift key.

> Triple-click a line, then click `mouse-3' on
> another line.  The selection picks up whole lines.

In other apps, triple-click a line, then again triple-click
on another line while holding down the Shift key.

But what if you need first to select a line, then extend
the selection to a word?  In other apps, triple-click a line,
then double-click `mouse-1' on a word while holding down the Shift key.
In Emacs, this is impossible.

Also in other apps Shift+F10 opens the context menu,
but why not in Emacs?

> [I'd like to see the double-clicking extended, so
> that if you double-click a paren in Lisp it picks
> up the full sexp, and if you then `mouse-3' another
> sexp it picks up full sexps in the interval.  But
> this is a bit trickier.]

It would be easier to use this as: double-click a paren to select
a sexp, then double-click another paren to select another sexp
while holding down the Shift key.