From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:06:42 +0200 Message-ID: <42AF38D2.2080306@student.lu.se> References: <8564wi2ag7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <851x753np7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42AE70EE.4080804@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118779419 16471 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2005 20:03:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:03:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 14 22:03:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiHca-0008Cv-Lf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:02:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiHhe-0001sQ-Ud for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiHgn-0001rJ-D7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:07:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiHgl-0001ql-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:07:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiHgk-0001qa-N2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.164] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DiHhf-0003hT-8B; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:08:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.43) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.059.6) id 429C53B600332CB8; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:06:43 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38828 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38828 Jason Rumney wrote: >Especially so since it isn't actually used for that, though many >people beleive it to be, and probably end up thinking they get a 50% >success rate as a result. To rename a file in Windows you click once on >the file to select it, and a second time within the text to edit >it. Cells in spreadsheets work the same way. > > Ehum, thanks. Well I said at least that the mouse clicking behaviour confused me ;-) I think this is kind of a hidden feature and I dislike that. What I like instead are behaviours like this: - mouse-1 click does an easily recognized function, like setting point or focus. Or, if it is something similar in look to a web browser link, then it should be a link and that link should be followed. - mouse-1 double-click could be used to kind of opening functions when mouse-1 click is used to set focus. - mouse-2 are used for less often used things - and it should pop up a menus for those things. (Though of course I realize that Emacs has choosen a different path here and that this could not be changed now.)