From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: [doug@bagley.org: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in dired surprising] Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:55:21 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152017834 29691 80.91.229.2 (4 Jul 2006 12:57:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 04 14:57:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxkSb-0002Qo-MQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:57:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxkSb-0004kj-6c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxkR2-00049I-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxkR1-00048m-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:55:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxkR0-00048T-P5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fxkeg-0002qc-Lr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:09:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FxkQz-0001xZ-Ty; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:55:21 -0400 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56485 Archived-At: Bagley argues that the file names in dired should be highlighted as links so as to avoid surprise. What do others think? ------- Start of forwarded message ------- To: rms@gnu.org Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in dired surprising From: Doug Bagley Organization: Hana no Chikara Zaibatsu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:02:38 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.0.4 Richard Stallman 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 ------- End of forwarded message -------