From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [doug@bagley.org: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in dired surprising]
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:18:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7118q5p.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FxkQz-0001xZ-Ty@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:55:21 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Bagley argues that the file names in dired should be highlighted as links
> so as to avoid surprise.
>
> What do others think?
I think it would be ugly and distracting.
> From: Doug Bagley <doug@bagley.org>
> Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in dired surprising
> To: rms@gnu.org
>
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> You could try editing the code in Dired to highlight all the file names.
>> Does that help you, do you find?
>
> Yes, somewhat. I did a quick experiment of overriding
> dired-insert-set-properties to have it set a font-lock-face. It's too
> inelegant for a real solution, but I did like the additional visual
> information indicting that the filenames were links.
>
> - -Doug
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-04 12:55 [doug@bagley.org: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in dired surprising] Richard Stallman
2006-07-04 13:18 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2006-07-04 17:40 ` [doug@bagley.org: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in diredsurprising] Drew Adams
2006-07-05 2:24 ` Miles Bader
2006-07-05 3:42 ` Dired coloring and other conveniences Drew Adams
2007-07-02 5:42 ` dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired Drew Adams
2007-07-02 13:04 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-07-02 13:46 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-02 20:50 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-07-02 21:04 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-02 14:02 ` add directory selection to the "compile" command lucatrv
2007-07-02 15:55 ` Denis Bueno
2007-07-04 18:38 ` lucatrv
2007-07-02 14:04 ` dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired Rob Giardina
2007-07-02 22:39 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-02 22:53 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-02 23:01 ` Rob Giardina
2007-07-03 1:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-03 5:44 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-05 13:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-04 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-04 3:53 ` Rob Giardina
2007-07-05 1:30 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-04 5:51 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-04 10:53 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-07-04 14:57 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-04 17:10 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-07-04 20:00 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-04 21:57 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-07-05 1:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-05 6:58 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-05 11:38 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-07-05 20:34 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-05 20:49 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-05 21:35 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-07-08 22:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-05 20:34 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-05 1:30 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-05 2:40 ` Rob Giardina
2007-07-05 20:34 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-05 1:30 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-05 3:22 ` Rob Giardina
2007-07-05 20:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-06 13:32 ` [doug@bagley.org: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in diredsurprising] Richard Stallman
2006-07-06 21:41 ` Miles Bader
2006-07-08 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-08 21:24 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-07-09 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-08 21:35 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-07-08 22:15 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-07-09 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
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