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1 ;;; mouse-drag.el --- use mouse-2 to do a new style of scrolling
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
4 ;; 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 ;; Author: John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>
7 ;; Keywords: mouse
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24 ;;; Commentary:
26 ;; What is ``mouse-drag.el''?
28 ;; Doesn't that scroll bar seem far away when you want to scroll?
29 ;; This module overloads mouse-2 to do ``throw'' scrolling. You
30 ;; click and drag. The distance you move from your original click
31 ;; turns into a scroll amount. The scroll amount is scaled
32 ;; exponentially to make both large moves and short adjustments easy.
33 ;; What this boils down to is that you can easily scroll around the
34 ;; buffer without much mouse movement. Finally, clicks which aren't
35 ;; drags are passed off to the old mouse-2 binding, so old mouse-2
36 ;; operations (find-file in dired-mode, yanking in most other modes)
37 ;; still work.
39 ;; There is an alternative way to scroll, ``drag'' scrolling. You
40 ;; can click on a character and then drag it around, scrolling the
41 ;; buffer with you. The character always stays under the mouse.
42 ;; Compared to throw-scrolling, this approach provides direct
43 ;; manipulation (nice) but requires more mouse movement
44 ;; (unfortunate). It is offered as an alternative for those who
45 ;; prefer it.
47 ;; If you like mouse-drag, you should also check out mouse-copy
48 ;; for ``one-click text copy and move''.
50 ;; To use mouse-drag, place the following in your .emacs file:
51 ;; -either-
52 ;; (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-throw)
53 ;; -or-
54 ;; (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-drag)
58 ;; Options:
60 ;; - reverse the throw-scroll direction with \\[mouse-throw-with-scroll-bar]
61 ;; - work around a bug with \\[mouse-extras-work-around-drag-bug]
62 ;; - auto-enable horizontal scrolling with
63 ;; \\[mouse-drag-electric-col-scrolling]
66 ;; History and related work:
68 ;; One-click copying and moving was inspired by lemacs-19.8.
69 ;; Throw-scrolling was inspired by MacPaint's ``hand'' and by Tk's
70 ;; mouse-2 scrolling. The package mouse-scroll.el by Tom Wurgler
71 ;; <twurgler@goodyear.com> is similar to mouse-drag-throw, but
72 ;; doesn't pass clicks through.
74 ;; These functions have been tested in emacs version 19.30,
75 ;; and this package has run in the past on 19.25-19.29.
77 ;; Originally mouse-drag was part of a larger package.
78 ;; As of 11 July 96 the scrolling functions were split out
79 ;; in preparation for incorporation into (the future) emacs-19.32.
81 ;; Thanks:
83 ;; Thanks to Kai Grossjohann
84 ;; <grossjoh@dusty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> for reporting bugs, to
85 ;; Tom Wurgler <twurgler@goodyear.com> for reporting bugs and
86 ;; suggesting fixes, and to Joel Graber <jgraber@ti.com> for
87 ;; prompting me to do drag-scrolling and for an initial
88 ;; implementation of horizontal drag-scrolling.
90 ;; -johnh@isi.edu, 11-Jul-96
93 ;; What's new with mouse-drag 2.24?
95 ;; - mouse-drag-electric-col-scrolling (default: on)
96 ;; auto-enables horizontal scrolling when clicks on wrapped
97 ;; lines occur
99 ;; TODO:
100 ;; - For mouse-drag-throw, we should try and place some visual indicator
101 ;; of the original mouse position (like Firefox does).
103 ;;; Code:
106 ;; scrolling code
109 (defun mouse-drag-safe-scroll (row-delta &optional col-delta)
110 "Scroll down ROW-DELTA lines and right COL-DELTA, ignoring buffer edge errors.
111 Keep the cursor on the screen as needed."
112 (let ((scroll-preserve-screen-position nil))
113 (if (and row-delta
114 (/= 0 row-delta))
115 (condition-case nil ;; catch and ignore movement errors
116 (scroll-down row-delta)
117 (beginning-of-buffer (message "Beginning of buffer"))
118 (end-of-buffer (message "End of buffer"))))
119 (if (and col-delta
120 (/= 0 col-delta))
121 (progn
122 (scroll-right col-delta)
123 ;; Make sure that the point stays on the visible screen
124 ;; (if truncation-lines in set).
125 ;; This code mimics the behavior we automatically get
126 ;; when doing vertical scrolling.
127 ;; Problem identified and a fix suggested by Tom Wurgler.
128 (cond
129 ((< (current-column) (window-hscroll))
130 (move-to-column (window-hscroll))) ; make on left column
131 ((> (- (current-column) (window-hscroll) (window-width) -2) 0)
132 (move-to-column (+ (window-width) (window-hscroll) -3))))))))
134 (defun mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll (row-delta &optional col-delta)
135 "Scroll ROW-DELTA rows and COL-DELTA cols until an event happens."
136 (while (sit-for mouse-scroll-delay)
137 (mouse-drag-safe-scroll row-delta col-delta)))
139 (defun mouse-drag-events-are-point-events-p (start-posn end-posn)
140 "Determine if START-POSN and END-POSN are \"close\"."
141 (let*
142 ((start-col-row (posn-col-row start-posn))
143 (end-col-row (posn-col-row end-posn)))
144 (and
145 ;; ;; We no longer exclude things by time.
146 ;; (< (- (posn-timestamp end-posn) (posn-timestamp start-posn))
147 ;; (if (numberp double-click-time)
148 ;; (* 2 double-click-time) ;; stretch it a little
149 ;; 999999)) ;; non-numeric => check by position alone
150 (= (car start-col-row) (car end-col-row))
151 (= (cdr start-col-row) (cdr end-col-row)))))
153 (defvar mouse-drag-electric-col-scrolling t
154 "If non-nil, mouse-drag on a long line enables truncate-lines.")
156 (defun mouse-drag-should-do-col-scrolling ()
157 "Determine if it's wise to enable col-scrolling for the current window.
158 Basically, we check for existing horizontal scrolling."
159 (or truncate-lines
160 (> (window-hscroll (selected-window)) 0)
161 (not (window-full-width-p))
162 (and
163 mouse-drag-electric-col-scrolling
164 (save-excursion ;; on a long line?
165 (let
166 ((beg (progn (beginning-of-line) (point)))
167 (end (progn (end-of-line) (point))))
168 (if (> (- end beg) (window-width))
169 (setq truncate-lines t)
170 nil))))))
172 (defvar mouse-throw-with-scroll-bar nil
173 "*Set direction of mouse-throwing.
174 If nil, the text moves in the direction the mouse moves.
175 If t, the scroll bar moves in the direction the mouse moves.")
176 (defconst mouse-throw-magnifier-min -6)
177 (defconst mouse-throw-magnifier-max 6)
178 (defconst mouse-throw-magnifier-base 1.5)
180 (defun mouse-drag-scroll-delta (mouse-delta)
181 ;; Limit the exponential explosion.
182 (setq mouse-delta
183 (max mouse-throw-magnifier-min
184 (min mouse-throw-magnifier-max mouse-delta)))
185 (* (round (exp (* (log mouse-throw-magnifier-base) (abs mouse-delta))))
186 (if (< mouse-delta 0) -1 1)
187 (if mouse-throw-with-scroll-bar 1 -1)))
189 ;;;###autoload
190 (defun mouse-drag-throw (start-event)
191 "\"Throw\" the page according to a mouse drag.
193 A \"throw\" is scrolling the page at a speed relative to the distance
194 from the original mouse click to the current mouse location. Try it;
195 you'll like it. It's easier to observe than to explain.
197 If the mouse is clicked and released in the same place of time we
198 assume that the user didn't want to scdebugroll but wanted to whatever
199 mouse-2 used to do, so we pass it through.
201 Throw scrolling was inspired (but is not identical to) the \"hand\"
202 option in MacPaint, or the middle button in Tk text widgets.
204 If `mouse-throw-with-scroll-bar' is non-nil, then this command scrolls
205 in the opposite direction. (Different people have different ideas
206 about which direction is natural. Perhaps it has to do with which
207 hemisphere you're in.)
209 To test this function, evaluate:
210 (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-throw)"
211 (interactive "e")
212 ;; we want to do save-selected-window, but that requires 19.29
213 (let* ((start-posn (event-start start-event))
214 (start-window (posn-window start-posn))
215 (start-row (cdr (posn-col-row start-posn)))
216 (start-col (car (posn-col-row start-posn)))
217 (old-selected-window (selected-window))
218 event end row mouse-delta scroll-delta
219 have-scrolled
220 window-last-row
221 col mouse-col-delta window-last-col
222 (scroll-col-delta 0)
223 adjusted-mouse-col-delta
224 adjusted-mouse-delta
225 ;; be conservative about allowing horizontal scrolling
226 (col-scrolling-p (mouse-drag-should-do-col-scrolling)))
227 (select-window start-window)
228 (track-mouse
229 (while (progn
230 (setq event (read-event)
231 end (event-end event)
232 row (cdr (posn-col-row end))
233 col (car (posn-col-row end)))
234 (or (mouse-movement-p event)
235 (eq (car-safe event) 'switch-frame)))
236 (when (eq start-window (posn-window end))
237 (when col-scrolling-p
238 (setq scroll-col-delta (mouse-drag-scroll-delta (- start-col col))))
239 (setq scroll-delta (mouse-drag-scroll-delta (- start-row row))))
241 (if (or (/= 0 scroll-delta)
242 (/= 0 scroll-col-delta))
243 (progn
244 (setq have-scrolled t)
245 (mouse-drag-safe-scroll scroll-delta scroll-col-delta)
246 (mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll scroll-delta scroll-col-delta))))) ;xxx
247 ;; If it was a click and not a drag, prepare to pass the event on.
248 ;; Is there a more correct way to reconstruct the event?
249 (if (and (not have-scrolled)
250 (mouse-drag-events-are-point-events-p start-posn end))
251 (push (cons (event-basic-type start-event) (cdr start-event))
252 unread-command-events))
253 ;; Now restore the old window.
254 (select-window old-selected-window)))
256 ;;;###autoload
257 (defun mouse-drag-drag (start-event)
258 "\"Drag\" the page according to a mouse drag.
260 Drag scrolling moves the page according to the movement of the mouse.
261 You \"grab\" the character under the mouse and move it around.
263 If the mouse is clicked and released in the same place of time we
264 assume that the user didn't want to scroll but wanted to whatever
265 mouse-2 used to do, so we pass it through.
267 Drag scrolling is identical to the \"hand\" option in MacPaint, or the
268 middle button in Tk text widgets.
270 To test this function, evaluate:
271 (global-set-key [down-mouse-2] 'mouse-drag-drag)"
272 (interactive "e")
273 ;; we want to do save-selected-window, but that requires 19.29
274 (let* ((start-posn (event-start start-event))
275 (start-window (posn-window start-posn))
276 (start-row (cdr (posn-col-row start-posn)))
277 (start-col (car (posn-col-row start-posn)))
278 (old-selected-window (selected-window))
279 event end row mouse-delta scroll-delta
280 have-scrolled
281 window-last-row
282 col mouse-col-delta window-last-col
283 (scroll-col-delta 0)
284 ;; be conservative about allowing horizontal scrolling
285 (col-scrolling-p (mouse-drag-should-do-col-scrolling)))
286 (select-window start-window)
287 (setq window-last-row (- (window-height) 2)
288 window-last-col (- (window-width) 2))
289 (track-mouse
290 (while (progn
291 (setq event (read-event)
292 end (event-end event)
293 row (cdr (posn-col-row end))
294 col (car (posn-col-row end)))
295 (or (mouse-movement-p event)
296 (eq (car-safe event) 'switch-frame)))
297 ;; Scroll if see if we're on the edge.
298 ;; NEEDSWORK: should handle mouse-in-other window.
299 (cond
300 ((not (eq start-window (posn-window end)))
301 t) ; wait for return to original window
302 ((<= row 0) (mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll -1 0))
303 ((>= row window-last-row) (mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll 1 0))
304 ((and col-scrolling-p (<= col 1)) (mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll 0 -1))
305 ((and col-scrolling-p (>= col window-last-col)) (mouse-drag-repeatedly-safe-scroll 0 1))
307 (setq scroll-delta (- row start-row)
308 start-row row)
309 (if col-scrolling-p
310 (setq scroll-col-delta (- col start-col)
311 start-col col))
312 (if (or (/= 0 scroll-delta)
313 (/= 0 scroll-col-delta))
314 (progn
315 (setq have-scrolled t)
316 (mouse-drag-safe-scroll scroll-delta scroll-col-delta)))))))
317 ;; If it was a click and not a drag, prepare to pass the event on.
318 ;; Is there a more correct way to reconstruct the event?
319 (if (and (not have-scrolled)
320 (mouse-drag-events-are-point-events-p start-posn end))
321 (push (cons (event-basic-type start-event) (cdr start-event))
322 unread-command-events))
323 ;; Now restore the old window.
324 (select-window old-selected-window)))
327 (provide 'mouse-drag)
329 ;; arch-tag: e47354ff-82f5-42c4-b3dc-88dd9c04b770
330 ;;; mouse-drag.el ends here