From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LENNART BORGMAN Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:44:06 +0200 Message-ID: <43386fa4333606.433360643386fa@net.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119015871 911 80.91.229.2 (17 Jun 2005 13:44:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:44:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, jasonr@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 17 15:44:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DjH8I-0003EE-0C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:43:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DjHDu-0002ec-IN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DjHBD-0001Y8-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:46:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DjHB7-0001TP-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:46:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DjHB5-0001SH-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:46:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.235.208.46] (helo=piraten.student.lu.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DjHAe-0004aF-EN; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:46:08 -0400 Original-Received: from net.lu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by piraten.student.lu.se (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0II8002IQE5I9V@piraten.student.lu.se>; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:44:06 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from [212.209.42.133] by piraten.student.lu.se (mshttpd); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:44:06 +0200 Original-To: Juri Linkov X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003) Content-language: sv Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: sv Priority: normal X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39019 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39019 From: Juri Linkov > Underlining doesn't make text look like a link. There are faces > with the underline attribute put on text which is not a link. > It would be confusing for users to think that such text is a link > and try to click it after learning a new Emacs convention of > underlining all mouse-1 sensitive areas. > > Also underlining often produces visual clutter, especially > in buffers with high link density like dired, grep and compilation > buffers. Web page designers often use underline only for mouse over if they do not like underlined text. It is sometimes awful on web pages and sometimes instructive enough. Maybe that could be an alternative here, since the buffers have a fixed structure and if the underline is seen once when mouse is over them the user probably would think that clicking mouse-1 will follow the link?