From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mode line changes
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:39:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JXTQE-0001d3-6o@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zltcln3n.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:20:28 +0900)
That's not always true -- at some point, the mode-line become busy and
prone to problems with accidental clicks: if you try to click on a
modeline widget, and miss by a character, it may be better that nothing
happens than something unwanted does; the more crowded with active
regions the modeline gets, the greater the chance for such mishaps.
That is a very good point. The smaller an active area is, the harder
it is to use, and the more error prone it becomes.
If the mouse click brings up a menu, rather than taking immediate
action, that more or less avoids the error problem. It does not
reduce the inconvenience problem.
(I am not sure what feature was proposed.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-07 3:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-05 20:46 Mode line changes Nick Roberts
2008-03-05 21:40 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-05 23:20 ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-05 23:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-06 0:07 ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-06 0:27 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-06 0:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-07 3:39 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2008-03-05 22:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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