From: Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?
Date: 21 May 2002 23:24:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877klxyz25.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilur8k5e6rn.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
Btw, do ANY other application have this mouse1 + mouse3 mark text
feature?
gpm does it.
But apparently this is not the standard with X applications.
rxvt (similar to xterm) does not use this technique. Rather, it uses
dragging mouse1 to select a region. But once a region is selected, you
can extend it on both sides using mouse3.
Netscape, as far as I can see, only uses dragging.
Probably, Emacs should use the same conventions as the Gnome
applications. Anyone knows if there is such a standard?
I haven't seen it before. IMHO dropping this feature in
favor of activating buttons and links with mouse-1 is more user
friendly (except for old time Emacs users) as it is consistent with
how other applications behave.
Emacs is oriented towards editing, not navigating. Having mouse1 on a
link jump to that link is not what commonly one would expect from an
editor.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-21 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-20 19:36 [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions? Simon Josefsson
2002-05-21 15:57 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-21 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-21 15:58 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-21 17:43 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-21 19:48 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-21 21:07 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-22 1:09 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-22 3:10 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-22 5:09 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-22 15:19 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-22 9:10 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-22 9:15 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-22 9:53 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-24 0:43 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-24 16:02 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-24 16:23 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-24 16:34 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-24 17:49 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-24 18:14 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-24 20:16 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-25 17:19 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-25 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-24 18:58 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-24 19:33 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-24 21:49 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-25 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-25 23:05 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-26 0:08 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-26 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-24 17:33 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-22 15:14 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-21 21:24 ` Francesco Potorti` [this message]
2002-05-21 21:35 ` Alan Shutko
2002-05-22 8:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-05-22 10:33 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-05-22 20:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-05-22 21:07 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-05-22 21:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-05-24 0:42 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-24 8:09 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-05-24 9:59 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-22 8:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-05 15:50 ` Stephen Berman
2002-05-22 22:28 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-22 1:29 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-24 0:42 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-22 22:28 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-23 1:14 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-24 21:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-25 1:27 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-25 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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