emacs 23.4 mouse-2 behaviour on OS-X 10.7

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how to map mouse-2 (middle button click) to (cmd + click) or (ctrl+click) on OS X using trackpad so as to display a popup menu under flyspell-mode.

A low acceptance demonstrates unwillingness to contribute the community. — event_jr, Jun 11 '12 at 13:02

score 14 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '12 at 13:35

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How about mouse-3 like Stefan suggests?

Add this to your init file:

(eval-after-load "flyspell"
    '(progn
       (define-key flyspell-mouse-map [down-mouse-3] #'flyspell-correct-word)
       (define-key flyspell-mouse-map [mouse-3] #'undefined)))

answered Jun 12 '12 at 13:35

event_jr

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This works for me. But obviously you need to run this lisp snippet at start-up; - after `flyspell` is loaded, it is too late. – halloleo Aug 18 '12 at 14:58
This is great! I've been modifying flyspell.el.gz each time and everytime I updated I'd lose it. – Joshua Olson Jun 28 '19 at 18:14

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '12 at 14:18

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Rather flyspell needs to be fixed to pop up its menu on mouse-3 since it's really more like a context menu. I.e. I recommend a M-x report-emacs-bug about it.

answered Jun 11 '12 at 14:18

Stefan

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 12 '12 at 21:04

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There's already an option built in for this. Take a look at:

mac-emulate-three-button-mouse

Specifically, you should be able to just add:

(setq mac-emulate-three-button-mouse t)

In your .emacs, and then mouse-2 will be Option+Click and mouse-3 will be Cmd+Click

answered Jun 12 '12 at 21:04

Justin Ward

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Note that this isn't present in GNU Emacs. – Sean Allred Dec 27 '14 at 20:17
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@SeanAllred To expand on that, this is for Aquamacs. – GDP2 Jan 03 '17 at 07:30

emacs 23.4 mouse-2 behaviour on OS-X 10.7

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