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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'John Paul Wallington'" <jpw@pobox.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: binding `display-time' modeline clickies to mouse-1
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 00:38:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000901c8c93a$a770c1d0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1mylwftrj.fsf@pobox.com>

> Given that most modeline clickies are bound to mouse-1 and we now
> live in a `mouse-1-click-follows-link' Emacs world, any objections to
> this change?
> -	  'help-echo "You have new mail; mouse-2: Read mail"
> +	  'help-echo "You have new mail; mouse-1: Read mail"
...

Living in a world with `mouse-1-click-follows-link' does not mean living in a
world where that variable is necessarily non-nil.

It is a mistake to hard-code things like this.

If hard-coding cannot be avoided for some reason, then the echo should be
ambiguous about which mouse button is used: just "click".





      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-08  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-08  4:14 binding `display-time' modeline clickies to mouse-1 John Paul Wallington
2008-06-08  7:38 ` Drew Adams [this message]

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