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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.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-22 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <u65c2bbkf.fsf@jasonrumney.net>
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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