Re: [BUG] org-mouse is activated without explicit require

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> I'm not too familiar with how emacs handles autoloads. However, I find
> org-mouse is automatically loaded if I call describe-function and then
> tab complete after typing "", "org-", "org-m", etc. This seems enough to
> load the entirely of the org-mouse.el file.
>
> The problem is that this adds a lambda function to org-mode-hook that
> activates all org-mouse functionality at the next call of org-mode or
> org-mode-restart. This has two unexpected effects:
>
> 1. It changes the behavior of mouse clicks without the user's explicit
>    request.
> 2. It advise org-open-at-point, with the result that it is no longer
>    possible to get a list of all links in an entry when calling
>    org-open-at-point on a headline. (See separate bug report on this.)

Confirmed.
We cannot do much about Emacs' handling of autoloads, but what we can
(and should) do is changing org-mouse to become a global minor mode.
Then, loading org-mouse will cause no side effects.

It will be a breaking change though. Not for Org 9.6.

Note that this bug is not new. org-mouse has not been changed for a long
time.

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