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Mac OSX and gitk right-click

Subject: Mac OSX and gitk right-click

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2 messages between Jun 6, 2008 and Jun 7, 2008.

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Thomas Harning· Jun 6, 2008, 22:44 UTC · lore

gitk doesn't appear to have right-click support in OSX, but gitgui-0.8.1 has it...

Thought I'd bring this up in case anybody has any fixes. Currently digging through to see if I can make a quick fix...

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Shawn O. Pearce· Jun 7, 2008, 07:20 UTC · re: Thomas Harning · lore

Re: Mac OSX and gitk right-click

Thomas Harning <thomas.harning@trustbearer.com> wrote:
> gitk doesn't appear to have right-click support in OSX, but  
> gitgui-0.8.1 has it...
That's because git-gui has this procedure
proc bind_button3 {w cmd} {
    bind $w <Any-Button-3> $cmd
    if {[is_MacOSX]} {
        # Mac OS X sends Button-2 on right click through three-button mouse,
        # or through trackpad right-clicking (two-finger touch + click).
        bind $w <Any-Button-2> $cmd
        bind $w <Control-Button-1> $cmd
    }
}

and uses it to configure the binding for the "right-click" scripts rather than calling "bind $w <Any-Button-3> ..." directly. gitk does the latter, and thus fails on Mac OS X.

I actually think its a bug in Tcl/Tk on Aqua that it doesn't treat Control-Click as a right click action, or that right mouse click is sent as button 2, but is 3 on ever other system.

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Shawn.

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