From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: follow-link in grep buffer Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:00:30 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109031100 24641 80.91.229.2 (22 Feb 2005 00:11:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:11:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 22 01:11:40 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3NdS-0002IO-W2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:10:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3NuV-0005bt-Et for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:28:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D3NtT-0005Df-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:27:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D3NtQ-0005CT-Of for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3NqM-0004Kb-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:24:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [148.87.122.30] (helo=rgminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D3NTf-0004H4-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:00:36 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id j1M00Yk8016719 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:00:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.50]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id j1M00XpL016709 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:00:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id j1M00Wog027023 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:00:32 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with SMTP id j1M00VFO027014 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:00:32 -0700 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33703 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33703 This "double click to launch" used to be a pretty common idiom at one time, though browsers have watered it down in some contexts. FWIW - I'm not an expert on this, but I believe that in Windows the single- vs double-click-follows/activates behavior is a user option. I would guess (but don't know) that most Windows users now use the single-click behavior. I don't know if following links and other actions (e.g. open) follow the same principle (option value). Perhaps someone else can speak to this more authoritatively.