FYI - For those interested in what I was trying to suggest wrt using the mouse pointer position for getting at text properties, see http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/facemenu+.el.
With this code, the Text Properties menu uses the cursor position (point) when it is accessed from the menu-bar and the mouse pointer position when it is accessed via mouse popup menu (C-mouse-2). So, for instance, you can point the mouse at some text and pick Describe Properties to see its text properties. I also added items "Change Face Foreground", "Change Face Background", and "Change Face Attribute" to the menu. The first two let you change a face incrementally (using the arrow keys or mouse wheel). Using the C-mouse-2 popup menu, you can just point to some text that has a face and change the face's colors incrementally. No need to know the face name or color names/values beforehand: just point and tweak. The code also lets Customize know that you've changed the face, so changing the face this way is equivalent to changing it via Customize (using a face name and color name). The library that does the incremental face changing (used by facemenu+el) is here: http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/doremi-frm.el. The same idea could be extended to other properties/features that users currently change by name, such as font properties (height, weight, etc.). The idea is to provide for more direct manipulation: you see a face/font/frame-parameter/whatever; you tweak it directly, without having to know its name or the names of its properties and their possible values; you can save the change via Customize. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
