GNU Emacs Manual - Mouse References

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## Following References with the Mouse

Some Emacs buffers display lists of various sorts. These include lists of files, of buffers, of possible completions, of matches for a pattern, and so on.

Since yanking text into these buffers is not very useful, most of them define `Mouse-2` specially, as a command to use or view the item you click on.

For example, if you click `Mouse-2` on a file name in a Dired buffer, you visit that file. If you click `Mouse-2` on an error message in the ``*Compilation*'` buffer, you go to the source code for that error message. If you click `Mouse-2` on a completion in the ``*Completions*'` buffer, you choose that completion.

You can usually tell when `Mouse-2` has this special sort of meaning because the sensitive text highlights when you move the mouse over it.

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