From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: follow-link in grep buffer Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:48:01 +0000 Message-ID: References: <16922.19947.785134.975378@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <16922.25920.599613.247225@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109034427 31451 80.91.229.2 (22 Feb 2005 01:07:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:07:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 22 02:07:07 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3OVt-00017M-2Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 02:06:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3Omw-0003Vi-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:24:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D3Ok0-00029N-EP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:21:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D3Ojh-00021N-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:21:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3Oje-0001w3-2m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:21:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D3ODm-0007Qr-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:48:15 -0500 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1M0mDnF025577; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:48:13 GMT Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41420DDFE2; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:48:13 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <16922.25920.599613.247225@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:48:32 +1300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) 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:33707 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33707 Nick Roberts writes: > Given that if you press the button longer it also doesn't follow the > link, the tooltip tells you that it does, even without focus, and > doesn't mention that mouse-2 does the job too (it's masked by > mouse-1), I think it would only create further confusion. Relying on tooltips to tell the user important information like this is what causes confusion. I've never noticed this, probably I don't leave the mouse over the clickable link long enough for a tooltip to pop-up, because I am not expecting to need to know more information.