From: "Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: generate 3) S-mouse-2: follow link in new window
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:10:44 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46438.128.165.123.18.1190653844.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
[Sorry if this arrives twice; my mailer says it didn't send it the first
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> Honestly, how many of you (not new users) keep the default value of
> `mouse-1-click-follows-link'? Outside of Emacs, there is not the same
> need for the normal use of `mouse-1' to set point. Honestly,
> pre-Emacs 22, did you ever run into a UI conflict between pasting and
> following a link? And just as honestly, with Emacs 22 have you ever
> accidentally followed a link when you just wanted to select a buffer
> or window or move the cursor?
I keep that default value without trouble. I don't think I have ever
wanted to mouse-paste into a link, but mouse-1 is certainly easier to use
when one's mouse-2 is a wheel. And I don't think I've ever accidentally
followed a link, because I rarely want to set point in one (they're not
often editable, for instance) and I rarely want to set point with the
mouse anyway (with the exception of long, wrapped buffer lines where some
short sequence of arrows, word motion, and C-a/C-e doesn't do what I
want). If I did want to set point in a link, the same absurd amount of
conditioning (in such places as web browsers) that produced the mouse-1
suggestion in the first place makes me think twice about just clicking, so
that I remember to hold the button for a bit without any trouble.
(That said, I don't really care one way or the other about what mouse-1
does on a link; it's not exactly hard to, after mouse-1 just sets point,
move a finger by a centimeter and use mouse-2 instead. I just don't think
that the current default is a bad one.)
Davis
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next reply other threads:[~2007-09-24 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 17:10 Davis Herring [this message]
2007-09-24 17:22 ` generate 3) S-mouse-2: follow link in new window Drew Adams
2007-09-24 18:33 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-24 21:30 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 19:27 ` David Kastrup
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-23 9:47 generate 1) virtual index and 2) other pages for Info; " Drew Adams
2007-09-23 12:00 ` generate " Juri Linkov
2007-09-23 16:44 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-23 19:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-09-23 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 0:20 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-24 1:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-24 2:01 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-27 21:21 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-27 21:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-27 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-27 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-27 21:53 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-28 19:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-28 19:33 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-28 22:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-30 2:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-30 8:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-30 23:37 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-30 23:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-01 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-29 22:41 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-30 2:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-29 22:43 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-30 2:18 ` Drew Adams
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