From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:18:44 +0200 Message-ID: <851x753np7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <8564wi2ag7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118706859 974 80.91.229.2 (13 Jun 2005 23:54:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 14 01:54:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhykY-0001bb-ON for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:53:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhypR-0004Jw-VO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:58:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dhykr-0002bC-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dhykq-0002al-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:54:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dhyi3-0001RZ-Py for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DhySR-0006oJ-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DhyQj-00034a-EM; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id BEA461C4CE19; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:18:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: (Jason Rumney's message of "Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:07:51 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:38769 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38769 Jason Rumney writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Double-tap, hold, release. Same procedure as you do when you >> intend to drag a region. Only that you don't drag. > > I think I'm going to have to join the luddites and stick with 21.4, > though that'll probably be the latest release for many years to come > if the feature freeze continues to be as successful as it has been > over the last year. > > There seems to be an increasing trend to make Emacs look and act > like a web browser in all contexts, making it frustrating to use for > text editing purposes. Setting the point is basic functionality, > and I shouldn't have to cross my fingers, double tap, hold, turn > around and touch my nose to do it. Look, if you don't know how to mark a region with your touchpad, you are not exactly able to make even close to full use of it. The "hold long for setting point" is, for example, also employed in the Mac Finder and (I think) Windows if you want to rename a file instead of start or select it. > I notice today, we now have technicolor blinking in the modeline as > the mouse passes over it. Mouse highlighting for mouse-activated fields is implemented elsewhere. It is only consistent that it is also done in the mode line. > What does tomorrow have in store, and when will the new features > stop coming? Why should the new features stop coming? > Enough sounding like Dan Jacobson for today, but I do seriously > think things are getting out of control here. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum