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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>,
	rms@gnu.org, bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?
Date: 25 May 2002 03:58:47 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87elg15q54.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilun0upmrma.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> Yes.  If you drag mouse-1 inside the current selection you get
> drag'n'drop, if you drag mouse-1 anywhere else it marks.

Note that this particular behavior can be seriously, seriously annoying.

For instance, when you select a region, and get the start wrong by 1
character, you can't just redrag it, you have first get rid of the
region by clicking (outside the region!), and _then_ redragg.

I get stung by this constantly...

-Miles
-- 
`Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities.
 But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that
 they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-24 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-20 19:36 [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions? Simon Josefsson
2002-05-21 15:57 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-21 20:05   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-21 15:58 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-21 17:43   ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-21 19:48     ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-21 21:07       ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-22  1:09       ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-22  3:10         ` Miles Bader
2002-05-22  5:09           ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-22 15:19             ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-22  9:10           ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-22  9:15             ` Miles Bader
2002-05-22  9:53               ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-24  0:43                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-24 16:02                   ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-24 16:23                     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-24 16:34                       ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-24 17:49                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-24 18:14                           ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-24 20:16                             ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-25 17:19                               ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-25  8:19                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-24 18:58                         ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-05-24 19:33                           ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-24 21:49                             ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-25 21:20                         ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-25 23:05                           ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-26  0:08                             ` Miles Bader
2002-05-26 22:25                             ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-24 17:33                     ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-22 15:14               ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-21 21:24     ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-05-21 21:35       ` Alan Shutko
2002-05-22  8:46       ` Andreas Schwab
2002-05-22 10:33         ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-05-22 20:58           ` Andreas Schwab
2002-05-22 21:07             ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-05-22 21:21               ` Andreas Schwab
2002-05-24  0:42       ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-24  8:09         ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-05-24  9:59       ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-22  8:44     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-05 15:50       ` Stephen Berman
2002-05-22 22:28     ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-22  1:29   ` Miles Bader
2002-05-24  0:42     ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-22 22:28   ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-23  1:14     ` Miles Bader
2002-05-24 21:12       ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-25  1:27         ` Miles Bader
2002-05-25  8:32           ` Eli Zaretskii

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