Function: track-mouse

track-mouse is a macro defined in subr.el.gz.

Signature

(track-mouse &rest BODY)

Documentation

Evaluate BODY with mouse movement events enabled.

Within a track-mouse(var)/track-mouse(fun) form, mouse motion generates input events that
 you can read with read-event.
Normally, mouse motion is ignored.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 25.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/subr.el.gz
;;;; Lisp macros to do various things temporarily.

(defmacro track-mouse (&rest body)
  "Evaluate BODY with mouse movement events enabled.
Within a `track-mouse' form, mouse motion generates input events that
 you can read with `read-event'.
Normally, mouse motion is ignored."
  (declare (debug (def-body)) (indent 0))
  `(internal--track-mouse (lambda () ,@body)))