Re: [PATCH] mouse-1 click follows link

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:

> Kim Storm wrote:
>
>    Here is the full patch (without doc updates) for the proposed
>    mouse-1-click-follows-link functionality, including rewriting of
>    tooltips and making C-h k aware of the remapping.
>
> I do not have the time to read your patch in detail.  I hope that I am
> wrong, but at first view it looks as if you do:
>
>     (setcar event 'mouse-2)
>
> whenever the user clicked mouse-1 and the text has the mouse-face
> property and does not have the new dont-follow-link property.

Exactly.

> Hopefully I am misunderstanding this, as it would obviously be
> disastrous, even for an optional feature.

Can you elaborate on this?

>
> Having the mouse-face property does _not at all_ imply that the text
> is a link.  

So far we have identified two examples of this in external packages
(preview-latex and AUCtex) -- it would be trivial for those to
add the dont-follow-link property.

>             I would rather work with a `link' property if you want to
> remap, than with a `dont-follow-link' if not.

I think it is better to mark the exceptions, rather than the rule.

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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk