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Axel Bregnsbo
Axel Bregnsbo

Reputation: 4181

Emacs disable mouse-1 in dired

In Emacs 23.2.1 in Dired mode the mouse-1 (left mouse button) performs visit file in other window. It also changes shape to a finger and highlights the filename when cursor hovers over the filename. How do I disable both visit file and filename highlighting ? I want mouse-1 to do its usual stuff: selecting text.

I can still select text if I start by clicking down in an area outside the filename or directory name. But I only want the filename marked, and not have a space in front included.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 593

Answers (2)

Mehrad
Mehrad

Reputation: 3829

If you use use-package, then simply bind the mouse-1 or down-mouse-1 to nil:

(use-package dired
  :ensure nil                     ;; Because dired is shipped with Emacs, it should be set to nil instead of t
  :bind (                         ;; Define keybindings
        :map dired-mode-map       ;; The mode that the next bindings should be applied to
        ("<down-mouse-1>" . nil)  ;; The binding in (KEY . ACTION) format
        )
)

Upvotes: 0

Drew
Drew

Reputation: 30701

I just turn off mouse-1-click-follows-link by customizing it to nil. (You can also set it to a long time-limit value.)

Or if you want to do that only for Dired buffers, you can do this:

(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook
      (lambda ()
        (set (make-local-variable 'mouse-1-click-follows-link) nil)))

But it is typically better to name a function that you use on a hook (it's easier to remove it, for one thing):

(defun foo ()
  (set (make-local-variable 'mouse-1-click-follows-link) nil)))

(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'foo)

If you have a recent version of Emacs, where setq-local is defined, then you can use just (setq-local mouse-1-click-follows-link nil) in the hook function, in place of (set (make-local-variable 'mouse-1-click-follows-link) nil)

Upvotes: 3

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