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: [NEW PATCH] mouse-1 click follows link Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:24:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200410292354.i9TNsCq01994@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200410310034.i9V0YX903876@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1103200244 11196 80.91.229.6 (16 Dec 2004 12:30:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:30:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 16 13:30:37 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 1CeumC-0004H5-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:30:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CeuwQ-00056k-Ro for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:41:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Ceuvt-00054Z-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:40:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Ceuvr-00052m-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:40:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Ceuvq-00051E-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:40:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ceul1-0000qf-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:29:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ceugl-00036t-8G; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:24:59 -0500 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: , 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31203 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31203 Should I install these changes (with proper doc string)? Yes, please do. For historical reasons, Emacs uses mouse-2 to take action on clickable text in a buffer, typically to follow a link to a position in another file or buffer. It is not just historical reasons. Mouse-2 fits in better with the usual Emacs mouse bindings than Mouse-1. We've decided to give higher priority to compatibility with other programs, at the cost of fitting in not quite as well. But what about the Emacs manual? Would a it suffice to put a generic mentioning like this somewhere (I would add this to NEWS as well): I suggest you grep for Mouse-2 and for Mouse-1, and change the places that need changing.