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1 ;;; mouse-drag.el --- use mouse-2 to do a new style of scrolling
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>
6 ;; Keywords: mouse
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25 ;;; Commentary:
27 ;;; What is ``mouse-drag.el''?
28 ;;;
29 ;;; Doesn't that scroll bar seem far away when you want to scroll?
30 ;;; This module overloads mouse-2 to do ``throw'' scrolling. You
31 ;;; click and drag. The distance you move from your original click
32 ;;; turns into a scroll amount. The scroll amount is scaled
33 ;;; exponentially to make both large moves and short adjustments easy.
34 ;;; What this boils down to is that you can easily scroll around the
35 ;;; buffer without much mouse movement. Finally, clicks which aren't
36 ;;; drags are passed off to the old mouse-2 binding, so old mouse-2
37 ;;; operations (find-file in dired-mode, yanking in most other modes)
38 ;;; still work.
39 ;;;
40 ;;; There is an alternative way to scroll, ``drag'' scrolling. You
41 ;;; can click on a character and then drag it around, scrolling the
42 ;;; buffer with you. The character always stays under the mouse.
43 ;;; Compared to throw-scrolling, this approach provides direct
44 ;;; manipulation (nice) but requires more mouse movement
45 ;;; (unfortunate). It is offered as an alternative for those who
46 ;;; prefer it.
47 ;;;
48 ;;; If you like mouse-drag, you should also check out mouse-copy
49 ;;; for ``one-click text copy and move''.
50 ;;;
51 ;;; To use mouse-drag, place the following in your .emacs file:
52 ;;; (require 'mouse-drag)
53 ;;; -and either-
54 ;;; (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-throw)
55 ;;; -or-
56 ;;; (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-drag)
57 ;;;
58 ;;;
59 ;;;
60 ;;; Options:
61 ;;;
62 ;;; - reverse the throw-scroll direction with \\[mouse-throw-with-scroll-bar]
63 ;;; - work around a bug with \\[mouse-extras-work-around-drag-bug]
64 ;;; - auto-enable horizontal scrolling with
65 ;;; \\[mouse-drag-electric-col-scrolling]
66 ;;;
67 ;;;
68 ;;; History and related work:
69 ;;;
70 ;;; One-click copying and moving was inspired by lemacs-19.8.
71 ;;; Throw-scrolling was inspired by MacPaint's ``hand'' and by Tk's
72 ;;; mouse-2 scrolling. The package mouse-scroll.el by Tom Wurgler
73 ;;; <twurgler@goodyear.com> is similar to mouse-drag-throw, but
74 ;;; doesn't pass clicks through.
75 ;;;
76 ;;; These functions have been tested in emacs version 19.30,
77 ;;; and this package has run in the past on 19.25-19.29.
78 ;;;
79 ;;; Originally mouse-drag was part of a larger package.
80 ;;; As of 11 July 96 the scrolling functions were split out
81 ;;; in preparation for incorporation into (the future) emacs-19.32.
82 ;;;
83 ;;;
84 ;;; Thanks:
85 ;;;
86 ;;; Thanks to Kai Grossjohann
87 ;;; <grossjoh@dusty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> for reporting bugs, to
88 ;;; Tom Wurgler <twurgler@goodyear.com> for reporting bugs and
89 ;;; suggesting fixes, and to Joel Graber <jgraber@ti.com> for
90 ;;; prompting me to do drag-scrolling and for an initial
91 ;;; implementation of horizontal drag-scrolling.
92 ;;;
93 ;;; -johnh@isi.edu, 11-Jul-96
94 ;;;
95 ;;;
96 ;;; What's new with mouse-drag 2.24?
97 ;;;
98 ;;; - mouse-drag-electric-col-scrolling (default: on)
99 ;;; auto-enables horizontal scrolling when clicks on wrapped
100 ;;; lines occur
102 ;;; Code:
105 ;; scrolling code
108 (defun mouse-drag-safe-scroll (row-delta &optional col-delta)
109 "Scroll down ROW-DELTA lines and right COL-DELTA, ignoring buffer edge errors.
110 Keep the cursor on the screen as needed."
111 (let ((scroll-preserve-screen-position nil))
112 (if (and row-delta
113 (/= 0 row-delta))
114 (condition-case nil ;; catch and ignore movement errors
115 (scroll-down row-delta)
116 (beginning-of-buffer (message "Beginning of buffer"))
117 (end-of-buffer (message "End of buffer"))))
118 (if (and col-delta
119 (/= 0 col-delta))
120 (progn
121 (scroll-right col-delta)
122 ;; Make sure that the point stays on the visible screen
123 ;; (if truncation-lines in set).
124 ;; This code mimics the behavior we automatically get
125 ;; when doing vertical scrolling.
126 ;; Problem identified and a fix suggested by Tom Wurgler.
127 (cond
128 ((< (current-column) (window-hscroll))
129 (move-to-column (window-hscroll))) ; make on left column
130 ((> (- (current-column) (window-hscroll) (window-width) -2) 0)
131 (move-to-column (+ (window-width) (window-hscroll) -3))))))))
133 (defun mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll (row-delta &optional col-delta)
134 "Scroll ROW-DELTA rows and COL-DELTA cols until an event happens."
135 (while (sit-for mouse-scroll-delay)
136 (mouse-drag-safe-scroll row-delta col-delta)))
138 (defun mouse-drag-events-are-point-events-p (start-posn end-posn)
139 "Determine if START-POSN and END-POSN are \"close\"."
140 (let*
141 ((start-col-row (posn-col-row start-posn))
142 (end-col-row (posn-col-row end-posn)))
143 (and
144 ;; We no longer exclude things by time.
145 ;; (< (- (posn-timestamp end-posn) (posn-timestamp start-posn))
146 ;; (if (numberp double-click-time)
147 ;; (* 2 double-click-time) ;; stretch it a little
148 ;; 999999)) ;; non-numeric => check by position alone
149 (= (car start-col-row) (car end-col-row))
150 (= (cdr start-col-row) (cdr end-col-row)))))
152 (defvar mouse-drag-electric-col-scrolling t
153 "If non-nil, mouse-drag on a long line enables truncate-lines.")
155 (defun mouse-drag-should-do-col-scrolling ()
156 "Determine if it's wise to enable col-scrolling for the current window.
157 Basically, we check for existing horizontal scrolling."
158 (or truncate-lines
159 (> (window-hscroll (selected-window)) 0)
160 (< (window-width) (frame-width))
161 (and
162 mouse-drag-electric-col-scrolling
163 (save-excursion ;; on a long line?
164 (let
165 ((beg (progn (beginning-of-line) (point)))
166 (end (progn (end-of-line) (point))))
167 (if (> (- end beg) (window-width))
168 (setq truncate-lines t)
169 nil))))))
171 (defvar mouse-throw-with-scroll-bar nil
172 "*Set direction of mouse-throwing.
173 If nil, the text moves in the direction the mouse moves.
174 If t, the scroll bar moves in the direction the mouse moves.")
175 (defconst mouse-throw-magnifier-with-scroll-bar
176 [-16 -8 -4 -2 -1 0 0 0 1 2 4 8 16])
177 (defconst mouse-throw-magnifier-with-mouse-movement
178 [ 16 8 4 2 1 0 0 0 -1 -2 -4 -8 -16])
179 (defconst mouse-throw-magnifier-min -6)
180 (defconst mouse-throw-magnifier-max 6)
182 (defun mouse-drag-throw (start-event)
183 "\"Throw\" the page according to a mouse drag.
185 A \"throw\" is scrolling the page at a speed relative to the distance
186 from the original mouse click to the current mouse location. Try it;
187 you'll like it. It's easier to observe than to explain.
189 If the mouse is clicked and released in the same place of time we
190 assume that the user didn't want to scdebugroll but wanted to whatever
191 mouse-2 used to do, so we pass it through.
193 Throw scrolling was inspired (but is not identical to) the \"hand\"
194 option in MacPaint, or the middle button in Tk text widgets.
196 If `mouse-throw-with-scroll-bar' is non-nil, then this command scrolls
197 in the opposite direction. (Different people have different ideas
198 about which direction is natural. Perhaps it has to do with which
199 hemisphere you're in.)
201 To test this function, evaluate:
202 (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-throw)"
203 (interactive "e")
204 ;; we want to do save-selected-window, but that requires 19.29
205 (let* ((start-posn (event-start start-event))
206 (start-window (posn-window start-posn))
207 (start-row (cdr (posn-col-row start-posn)))
208 (start-col (car (posn-col-row start-posn)))
209 (old-selected-window (selected-window))
210 event end row mouse-delta scroll-delta
211 have-scrolled
212 window-last-row
213 col mouse-col-delta window-last-col
214 (scroll-col-delta 0)
215 adjusted-mouse-col-delta
216 adjusted-mouse-delta
217 ;; be conservative about allowing horizontal scrolling
218 (col-scrolling-p (mouse-drag-should-do-col-scrolling)))
219 (select-window start-window)
220 (track-mouse
221 (while (progn
222 (setq event (read-event)
223 end (event-end event)
224 row (cdr (posn-col-row end))
225 col (car (posn-col-row end)))
226 (or (mouse-movement-p event)
227 (eq (car-safe event) 'switch-frame)))
228 (if (eq start-window (posn-window end))
229 (progn
230 (setq mouse-delta (- start-row row)
231 adjusted-mouse-delta
232 (- (cond
233 ((<= mouse-delta mouse-throw-magnifier-min)
234 mouse-throw-magnifier-min)
235 ((>= mouse-delta mouse-throw-magnifier-max)
236 mouse-throw-magnifier-max)
237 (t mouse-delta))
238 mouse-throw-magnifier-min)
239 scroll-delta (aref (if mouse-throw-with-scroll-bar
240 mouse-throw-magnifier-with-scroll-bar
241 mouse-throw-magnifier-with-mouse-movement)
242 adjusted-mouse-delta))
243 (if col-scrolling-p
244 (setq mouse-col-delta (- start-col col)
245 adjusted-mouse-col-delta
246 (- (cond
247 ((<= mouse-col-delta mouse-throw-magnifier-min)
248 mouse-throw-magnifier-min)
249 ((>= mouse-col-delta mouse-throw-magnifier-max)
250 mouse-throw-magnifier-max)
251 (t mouse-col-delta))
252 mouse-throw-magnifier-min)
253 scroll-col-delta (aref (if mouse-throw-with-scroll-bar
254 mouse-throw-magnifier-with-scroll-bar
255 mouse-throw-magnifier-with-mouse-movement)
256 adjusted-mouse-col-delta)))))
257 (if (or (/= 0 scroll-delta)
258 (/= 0 scroll-col-delta))
259 (progn
260 (setq have-scrolled t)
261 (mouse-drag-safe-scroll scroll-delta scroll-col-delta)
262 (mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll scroll-delta scroll-col-delta))))) ;xxx
263 ;; If it was a click and not a drag, prepare to pass the event on.
264 ;; Is there a more correct way to reconstruct the event?
265 (if (and (not have-scrolled)
266 (mouse-drag-events-are-point-events-p start-posn end))
267 (push (cons (event-basic-type start-event) (cdr start-event))
268 unread-command-events))
269 ;; Now restore the old window.
270 (select-window old-selected-window)))
272 (defun mouse-drag-drag (start-event)
273 "\"Drag\" the page according to a mouse drag.
275 Drag scrolling moves the page according to the movement of the mouse.
276 You \"grab\" the character under the mouse and move it around.
278 If the mouse is clicked and released in the same place of time we
279 assume that the user didn't want to scroll but wanted to whatever
280 mouse-2 used to do, so we pass it through.
282 Drag scrolling is identical to the \"hand\" option in MacPaint, or the
283 middle button in Tk text widgets.
285 To test this function, evaluate:
286 (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-drag)"
287 (interactive "e")
288 ;; we want to do save-selected-window, but that requires 19.29
289 (let* ((start-posn (event-start start-event))
290 (start-window (posn-window start-posn))
291 (start-row (cdr (posn-col-row start-posn)))
292 (start-col (car (posn-col-row start-posn)))
293 (old-selected-window (selected-window))
294 event end row mouse-delta scroll-delta
295 have-scrolled
296 window-last-row
297 col mouse-col-delta window-last-col
298 (scroll-col-delta 0)
299 ;; be conservative about allowing horizontal scrolling
300 (col-scrolling-p (mouse-drag-should-do-col-scrolling)))
301 (select-window start-window)
302 (setq window-last-row (- (window-height) 2)
303 window-last-col (- (window-width) 2))
304 (track-mouse
305 (while (progn
306 (setq event (read-event)
307 end (event-end event)
308 row (cdr (posn-col-row end))
309 col (car (posn-col-row end)))
310 (or (mouse-movement-p event)
311 (eq (car-safe event) 'switch-frame)))
312 ;; Scroll if see if we're on the edge.
313 ;; NEEDSWORK: should handle mouse-in-other window.
314 (cond
315 ((not (eq start-window (posn-window end)))
316 t) ; wait for return to original window
317 ((<= row 0) (mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll -1 0))
318 ((>= row window-last-row) (mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll 1 0))
319 ((and col-scrolling-p (<= col 1)) (mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll 0 -1))
320 ((and col-scrolling-p (>= col window-last-col)) (mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll 0 1))
322 (setq scroll-delta (- row start-row)
323 start-row row)
324 (if col-scrolling-p
325 (setq scroll-col-delta (- col start-col)
326 start-col col))
327 (if (or (/= 0 scroll-delta)
328 (/= 0 scroll-col-delta))
329 (progn
330 (setq have-scrolled t)
331 (mouse-drag-safe-scroll scroll-delta scroll-col-delta)))))))
332 ;; If it was a click and not a drag, prepare to pass the event on.
333 ;; Is there a more correct way to reconstruct the event?
334 (if (and (not have-scrolled)
335 (mouse-drag-events-are-point-events-p start-posn end))
336 (push (cons (event-basic-type start-event) (cdr start-event))
337 unread-command-events))
338 ;; Now restore the old window.
339 (select-window old-selected-window)))
342 (provide 'mouse-drag)
344 ;;; mouse-drag.el ends here