From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:56:01 +0200 Message-ID: <851x738n5q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87d5qpt23j.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118861634 21388 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2005 18:53:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 20:53:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Did0k-0004QA-A5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:53:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Did60-0008V7-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Did5i-0008Rf-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:58:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Did5d-0008Ov-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:58:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Did5c-0008OC-Rw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:58:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Did50-0002gf-VV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:57:39 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Did3K-0001nV-Sk; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id AB69A1C4CE19; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:56:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: David Abrahams In-Reply-To: (David Abrahams's message of "Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:27:40 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:38905 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38905 David Abrahams writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> Some programs need two, some need one. We had a long discussion >> of this, and decided that most users would expect a single click >> to follow a link or activate a button. > > I hope that predictive decisions about what most users will expect > may be amended in the face of empirical evidence to the contrary. There is a saying "one swallow doth not the summer bode" in Germany. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum