Revisiting Emacs Mouse Interactions with Anju

Charles Y. Choi - IRC: kickingvegas, Website: http://yummymelon.com/devnull/ Mastodon: @kickingvegas@sfba.social, kickingvegas@gmail.com

Format: 20-min talk ; Q&A: IRC Etherpad: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2026-anju
Etherpad: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2026-anju
Status: Waiting for video from speaker

Description

Anju (안주) is a project to align mouse interactions in Emacs with contemporary expectations in 2026. Effort towards this alignment is made in the areas of context-sensitive menus, de-emphasis of middle mouse button usage, support for direct manipulation, and re-organization of the main menu bar. The features offered by Anju are opinionated, but avoids unconventional behavior. Anju aspires to bring a calmer mouse experience to Emacs.

This talk will present an overview of Anju (https://kickingvegas.github.io/anju/), describing its design decisions and implementation.

About the speaker: Charles Choi is a Computer Engineer and Emacs enthusiast.

Questions or comments? Please e-mail kickingvegas@gmail.com

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