From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:04:48 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <873brhtcin.fsf@jurta.org> References: <42AEC039.10207@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119013121 23944 80.91.229.2 (17 Jun 2005 12:58:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk, drew.adams@oracle.com, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 17 14:58:36 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DjGQB-00025k-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:58:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DjGJc-0001sK-Lv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:51:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DjGJG-0001oG-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:50:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DjGJ6-0001gj-D3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DjGJ6-0001gg-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:50:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DjG9T-0007qn-UT; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-34-176-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.34.176]) by Relayhost2.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC6C268C; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:38:41 +0300 (EEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:46:25 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee 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:39012 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39012 > I can't comment on Gnus, which I don't use. In Compilation and Grep > modes, only the file names and line numbers respond to mouse-1. They > also show a mouse face. > > Perhaps we should underline them to make them look more like a link. > How about that? Underlining doesn't make text look like a link. There are faces with the underline attribute put on text which is not a link. It would be confusing for users to think that such text is a link and try to click it after learning a new Emacs convention of underlining all mouse-1 sensitive areas. Also underlining often produces visual clutter, especially in buffers with high link density like dired, grep and compilation buffers. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/