Re: Binding mouse-3 to browse-url-at-point question

[David Kastrup]

"Jeff Rancier" <jeff.rancier@softechnics.com> writes:

> Hello.
> 
> I easily enough bound it, via the following in my .emacs:
> 
> (global-set-key [(mouse-3)] 'browse-url-at-point)
> 
> The problem is that the point doesn't change to the line I mouse-3 click on
> before I browse-url-at-point().  Of course I can click mouse-1, then
> mouse-3, to acheive this, but I'd rather have mouse-3 move the point then
> browse.
> 
> I did C-h k on mouse-1 and got:  mouse-drag-region (which first moves the
> point), so I naively tried:
> 
> (global-set-key [(mouse-3)]
>   (lambda()
>     progn
>     'mouse-drag-region
>     'browse-url-at-point))
> 
> But got:
> 
> recursive-edit: Wrong type argument: commandp, (lambda nil progn (quote
> mouse-drag-region) (quote browse-url-at-point))
> 
> Can anyone help me fix this up a bit?

Commands bound to keys have to start with an (interactive ...) form.
Take a look at C-h f interactive RET, a particular letter argument
tells the keybinding that it should first move the point to the
clicked position...

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