From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: 374@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#374: Info header line does not respect mouse-1-click-follows-link
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:18:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00cc01c8ce4b$04317bc0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48540384.6090107@gmail.com>
> >>> The point here is about users being _able_ to have the traditional
> >>> (pre-22)behavior, not about setting the traditional
> >>> behavior as the default.
> >>
> >> Wouldn't that need be much less if the links where
> >> underlined or only underlined links where followed by
> >> mouse-1 (as I wrote in the
> >> previous comment to your proposal)?
>
> > It has nothing to do with link appearance. (It would not
> > help to underline links in Dired.) Quite the contrary:
> > I don't want to have to look carefully to see if
> > I'm clicking on a link, just to select a buffer. I don't
> > want to check whether text is underlined or whatever.
>
> Thanks, I see. But I believe many people would think
> differently since they have learned otherwise from for
> example web browsers.
And that's precisely why we let them use mouse-1 to follow links. I am not
proposing to take that away from anyone who expects or wants it.
> But with that I do not want to say I am against your proposal for an
> option. Personally I do not mind.
Good. I can't believe anyone would mind. Why prevent some users from not
following any links with mouse-1?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-14 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-07 0:07 bug#374: Info header line does not respect mouse-1-click-follows-link Drew Adams
2008-06-14 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-14 8:08 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-14 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-14 16:37 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-14 17:02 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-14 17:09 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-14 17:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-14 17:34 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-14 17:44 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-14 18:18 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-06-14 18:39 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-14 20:03 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-14 20:34 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-14 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-14 18:21 ` bug#374: Info header line does not respectmouse-1-click-follows-link Drew Adams
2012-07-08 8:28 ` bug#374: Info header line does not respect mouse-1-click-follows-link Chong Yidong
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