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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Bug-Gnu-Emacs'" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: mouse-1 in Customize should respect mouse-1-click-follows-link
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:15:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000701c8a28c$768a5ec0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DHEEKFAFJEFOJHLCFPFDCECBCDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

What makes this especially bad is that these links (or buttons, if you prefer)
are not indicated as such. The only way to know that there is a link present is
to use mouseover, because there is no highlighting except for `mouse-face'.

This means that you can easily click mouse-1 to move the cursor somewhere and
end up accidentally following a link, even if you have
`mouse-1-click-follows-link' = nil. 

This is a UI no-no.

> From: Drew Adams Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 1:29 PM
> Click mouse-1 on a link in a Customize buffer that is a link to
> another option name or similar. That is, on text between `' that is
> highlighted with mouseover (`mouse-face').  The link is followed.
> 
> The link should not be followed by `mouse-1' if
> `mouse-1-click-follows-link' is nil.  In that case, only clicking
> `mouse-2' should follow the link.
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags 
> -Ic:/gnuwin32/include'





      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-20  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-26 21:28 mouse-1 in Customize should respect mouse-1-click-follows-link Drew Adams
2008-04-20  2:15 ` Drew Adams [this message]

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