From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:05:25 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098781940 1869 80.91.229.6 (26 Oct 2004 09:12:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 26 11:12:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CMNNF-0001bI-00 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:12:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CMNUv-0003a5-M3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CMNQ2-0001Fx-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CMNPy-0001FQ-FF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CMNPx-0001Da-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:15:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CMNH9-0003rg-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CMNGf-000322-CB; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:05:25 -0400 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28965 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28965 > Sounds like a terrible idea to me. Working with X11-over-DSL means that > timing is rather unreliable. Same thing with heavy-swapping (as happens > when a I do `tla star-merge' :-( ). True, but the worst thing that can happen (if you use a positive value) is that the click sets the point rather than follows the link If the timing can be distorted, it can be distorted in either direction. However, we don't see a lot of complaints that double click doesn't work, so maybe it is not a serious problem. Hm, true, but at least on X, the timestamps are recorded by the X server, so it's not depending on emacs getting any cycles to process the clicks. That seems to imply there is no real problem of this kind. It was useful to consider the question, though.