Mousing in XEmacs

sandy@ibm550.sissa.it
Mon, 3 Oct 1994 16:33:17 +0200


>>>>> On Mon, 3 Oct 94 14:33:54 +0100,
      sboff@hp735.stru.polimi.it (Giacomo Boffi) said:

 > in a buffer, i have the following lines:

 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Guido bosch and me have developed several modes for lucid-emacs. They
 > works pretty well on xemacs-19.11. Perhaps few  modes has been already
 > announced but i repost an announce ...

 > /ftp.loria.fr:/pub/unix/local/xemacs
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------

 > i have the desire to download some of the above mentioned code, so i do

 > M-x dired RET C-a C-k

 > so i have a minibuffer that says just:

 > Dired (directory): 

 > at his point, i drag the mouse pointer to the last line of the above
 > excerpt, aiming at selecting the line and pasting it into the minibuffer.

 > when the mouse gets across a character of the last line, a ftp process
 > is started, xemacs stops, and i have to interrupt efs with a C-g to
 > gain back control.

 > in the meantime, i am told "Opening FTP connection to ftp.loria.fr..."

 > take note that the contents of the *ftp anonymous@ftp.loria.fr* buffer
 > are relative to three successive attempts that i made.

 > Emacs  : GNU Emacs 19.11 XEmacs Lucid of Sat Sep 10 1994 on julienas (hpux)
 > Package: efs

This looks like there is some mouse-based completion package kicking
in.  I have no idea what.  efs would only open an FTP connection if
some other program asked it for a list of files on that host, or
called expand-file-name.  I can't test this as I don't run XEmacs.
Andy, Chipsy does this happen for you?

--sandy