From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [doug@bagley.org: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in dired surprising] Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:18:10 -0400 Message-ID: <87r7118q5p.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152019137 2005 80.91.229.2 (4 Jul 2006 13:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 04 15:18:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxknR-0006hY-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:18:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxknQ-0003aj-EG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxknD-0003aa-QO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:18:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxknD-0003aQ-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:18:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [18.72.1.2] (helo=south-station-annex.mit.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fxl0t-0005Dv-N9; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k64DII0N011054; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:18:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k64DIHHL022682; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:18:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cyd (SYDNEYPACIFIC-SEVENTY-FOUR.MIT.EDU [18.95.5.74]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id k64DIA9H015221; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:18:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cyd by cyd with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Fxkn4-0000gr-00; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:18:10 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:55:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 1.47 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 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:56490 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Bagley argues that the file names in dired should be highlighted as links > so as to avoid surprise. > > What do others think? I think it would be ugly and distracting. > From: Doug Bagley > Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in dired surprising > To: rms@gnu.org > > Richard Stallman writes: >> You could try editing the code in Dired to highlight all the file names. >> Does that help you, do you find? > > Yes, somewhat. I did a quick experiment of overriding > dired-insert-set-properties to have it set a font-lock-face. It's too > inelegant for a real solution, but I did like the additional visual > information indicting that the filenames were links. > > - -Doug > ---------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-devel mailing list > Emacs-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel