> From: "Michaël" Cadilhac Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 8:36 AM
> Well, I believe people around here don't use the mouse on a daily basis,
> we pretty much have all years of practice, and learned that the mousy
> thing isn't the most efficient way to use Emacs.  This is more a feature
> for novice users, and they don't usually take part in devel discussions.
> 
> But we seem to agree (at least Dan, Drew and I) that this feature would
> be a good thing, as it improves consistency.  A novice user can be
> disappointed to see that although the cursor's shape changes when moving
> to a minor mode modeline item, nothing can be triggered.
> 
> Again, my .2€.

Attached are doc (texinfo) patches for this feature. Someone might want to check that I used @samp correctly etc.