From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: clickable text in org-mode not working (Sebastien Vauban) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:24:57 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TYLAT-0003fd-6E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:25:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TYLAQ-0005kI-3W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:25:01 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com ([209.85.212.177]:58176) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TYLAP-0005k4-Tq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:24:58 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f177.google.com with SMTP id c10so1871033wiw.12 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:24:57 -0800 (PST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I was just learning about programming interactive features into emacs buffers, and something that worked in one major mode did not work in org-mode. I have narrowed it down to an effect of font-lock-mode. When that is off, the mouse-clicking works fine, when it is on, the font syntax highlighting works fine, but not the clicking in org-mode. In terms of usage, I could see this as a way to automatically make "links" out of different words, or in a related application to overlay tooltips on specific words without having to markup the org-file. In essence, moving some markup to a lisp file that is run before opening the org-file. I am familiar with `org-add-link-type' and have used that to do some pretty cool things, as well as the elisp and shell links. With the clickable text code I described, you can actually do different things with different mouse clicks, including different mouse buttons, and presumably on mouse button up events. It is not obvious that can be done with `org-add-link-type'; you get the same behavior with any mouse button click. I havent advanced to a point where I could get emacs-lisp to tell me which mouse event occurred on clicking on a link. That seems possible though. j > Message: 34 > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:50:19 +0100 > From: "Sebastien Vauban" > To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [O] clickable text in org-mode not working > Message-ID: <80haot999w.fsf@somewhere.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hello John, > > John Kitchin wrote: >> It appears that one cannot define "clickable" text in org-mode. I was >> trying to make some text in an org-file respond to different types of >> clicking. I know that links provide some functionality for this, but >> out of curiosity I wanted to see what else I could do. >> >> If I run the following code on a buffer in text-mode, the first four >> characters in the buffer turn blue with a white background, they turn >> a light green when the mouse is over them, and finally a message box >> pops up when I click on the characters. >> >> (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))) >> (define-key map (kbd "") >> '(lambda() (interactive) (message-box "it works!"))) >> (add-text-properties 1 5 `(keymap, map >> font-lock-face (:foreground "blue" >> :background "white") >> mouse-face highlight))) >> >> If I switch to org-mode, the clickability and mouse highlighting go >> away. They also do not appear when I run the function in an >> org-buffer. >> >> Does anyone know if there is a feature in org-mode that turns this >> off, or if there is a way to get the clickability to work? Is it >> related to having links that are clickable? > > I'm not sure to understand your use case -- why do you want clickable text in > the first place (other than links)? > > But, did you look at `org-add-link-type' which does allow some kind of > powerful stuff (mainly for export, but can maybe be diverted from its original > purpose)? > > I guess you also are aware of the elisp and shell links you can already put in > any Org file, as clickable "buttons"? > > Best regards, > Seb > > -- > Sebastien Vauban > > > >