Context menus in Emacs 28!

Today I learned that Emacs 28 added context-menu-mode so that we can easily add context menus. This is a minor mode which you can toggle with

M-x context-menu-mode RET

but I added hooks to enable it for text mode and a couple others

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode)
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode)
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode)

I did not hook prog mode because some of the fancier lsp things already use mouse-3.

Last year, I talked about dictionaries including dictionary-search in Emacs and binding it to a key. Now let's put it on a context menu!

(require 'dictionary)

(defun my-context-menu (menu click)
  "My context menu"
  (define-key-after menu [dictionary-lookup]
    '(menu-item "Dict" dictionary-search-word-at-mouse
                :help "Look up in dictionary"))
  menu)

;; hook into context menu
(add-hook 'context-menu-functions #'my-context-menu)

Now right-clicking on a word in Emacs has a Dict choice on the context menu.

Selecting it looks up the word

Keen!