Unwanted pop-up menu

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From	Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel_cb@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject	Unwanted pop-up menu
Date	Wed, 6 May 2015 17:19:32 +0200
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Recently OS 10.7.5 on my Macbook Air has been increasingly doing 
something that it never did before (or did only very rarely). I notice 
it most when I'm using TexShop, but I think it comes from the OS rather 
than from TexShop, as it also sometimes happens when I'm not in TexShop.

In the past, if I clicked somewhere in a document the pointer would go 
to that point, and if I double-clicked it would select the word I 
clicked on. Increasingly often, however, it behaves as if I had the 
ctrl key down at the time of my action. So, instead of selecting the 
word I clicked on it offers a pop-up menu that I don't usually want. In 
the Finder, for example, clicking on "Macintosh HD" gives a menu that 
starts with Open, Get Info, etc. In TexShop it starts with "Sync", but 
the principle is the same.

This has had one good effect in that I have learned how to make the 
Ctrl key a lot more useful than I ever did before, but I find it 
absolutely maddening to be offered a menu when I haven't asked for one 
(and when it refuses to go away).

I thought there might be a Preference set somewhere in the Systems 
Preferences that causes this behaviour, but I can't find one.

Is there any way to switch it off, so that I only get a menu if the 
ctrl key is down? There is nothing to suggest that the ctrl key is 
sticking, incidentally.


-- 
athel

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Unwanted pop-up menu Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel_cb@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-06 17:19 +0200
  Re: Unwanted pop-up menu Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-05-06 08:46 -0700
  Re: Unwanted pop-up menu Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-05-06 08:58 -0700
    Re: Unwanted pop-up menu Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-05-07 09:31 +1200
      Re: Unwanted pop-up menu Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel_cb@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-07 10:21 +0200

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