From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, jasonr@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Explorer?
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:20:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D003ADC8-945F-11D8-861A-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040422123356.GA28041@fencepost>
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:52:39PM +0200, Jan D. wrote:
>> Exactly what is inconsistent? That mouse down does not clear the
>> selected
>> part or that it doesn't set mark, or something else? Note that it is
>> only
>> when clicking on some selected text and dragging that the behaviour
>> differs. If clicking outside selected text, or not dragging, we can
>> keep
>> the old behaviour.
>
> To tell the truth, I hate the D&D-by-dragging-selected-text behavior
> of other
> apps (in particular, mozilla), because it's damn touchy -- often I'll
> try to
> click to make the selected region collapse, but accidentally drag a
> _little
> bit_, which ends up invoking the D&D behavior...
I get bitten by this sometimes also. It is important that the amount
of drag
is customizable. Usually it is not.
> The same thing happens with other interfaces where dragging vs.
> clicking
> makes a significant difference (e.g., trying to edit the filename of a
> selected icon in windows -- _infuriating_!), it just seems like poor
> design.
This is probably the reason why Motif/CDE uses mouse-2 to drag. No risk
of starting a drag when an ordinary click with mouse-1 was intended.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-22 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-04-14 23:56 ` Emacs Explorer? Drew Adams
2004-04-15 8:03 ` Jan D.
2004-04-16 18:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-16 22:16 ` Jan D.
2004-04-17 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-19 13:10 ` Jan D.
2004-04-20 6:59 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-22 11:52 ` Jan D.
2004-04-22 12:33 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-22 13:20 ` Jan D. [this message]
2004-04-22 13:45 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-22 15:16 ` Jan D.
2004-04-24 16:50 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-04-22 14:16 ` Jason Rumney
2004-04-22 15:26 ` Jan D.
2004-04-22 16:16 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-22 16:50 ` Jan D.
2004-04-22 17:43 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-22 20:04 ` Jan D.
2004-04-23 17:22 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-24 16:59 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-04-25 20:31 ` Karl Eichwalder
2004-04-25 23:35 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-14 17:06 Drew Adams
2004-04-14 22:54 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-14 23:31 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-16 18:08 ` Richard Stallman
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