[Question] How can I detect right-click using plugin callbacks?

[usfbih8u]

micro 2.0.14 (Linux)

Looks like MousePress, MouseMultiCursor, MouseRelease and MouseDrag are related with left-click:

// Mouse bindings from runtime/help/keybindings.md
"MouseWheelUp":     "ScrollUp",
"MouseWheelDown":   "ScrollDown",
"MouseLeft":        "MousePress",
"MouseLeftDrag":    "MouseDrag",
"MouseLeftRelease": "MouseRelease",
"MouseMiddle":      "PastePrimary",
"Ctrl-MouseLeft":   "MouseMultiCursor",

showkey shows no binding for right-click (MouseRight).

[dmaluka]

Yes, MouseRight, MouseRightRelease and MouseRightDrag are not bound to any actions by default, but you can bind them to any actions you like (if that is what you are asking about).

[usfbih8u]

But right-click is able to change the focus in the splits. How? I want to detect that for my plugin.

Where is the change of split with right-click in the micro code? So I can investigate more.

Is there any way of detecting it, besides onSetActive()?

[dmaluka]

Ah, yes. Currently any mouse button click (left, right or middle) always activates the split pane it clicks on, even if this button is not bound to any action. This hardcoded logic is in Tab.HandleEvent():

micro/internal/action/tab.go

Line 312 in b432bb7

t.SetActive(i)

See also commit 2d95064 (which was a part of PR #2606).

Is there any way of detecting it, besides onSetActive()?

There is also a more low-level way using onAnyEvent, which allows to compare the current active pane with the pane that was active when before the last event. But I think in this case it is no better than onSetActive, since it doesn't allow to detect whether the pane was activated with right-click or any other way.

[usfbih8u]

Thank you for your response!