From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:46:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d5qpt23j.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118847586 3687 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2005 14:59:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 16:59:45 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiZM5-0000IJ-UN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:59:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiZRK-0004cP-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:04:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiZO1-0003N8-Ef for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiZKQ-0002V1-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiZKJ-0002Lo-17 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DiZBF-0007wB-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DiZ9a-0004EU-KB; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:46:06 -0400 Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-reply-to: (bob@rattlesnake.com) 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:38884 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38884 To me mouse-2 is familiar for activating links, as in going from a message summary buffer to reading an email message; mouse-1 is not. I use mouse-1 to set point and I use it frequently. You are an experienced Emacs user, not a beginner coming to Emacs from other GUIs. We've decided that this default should be good for them, because you know how to change it. When I have had to use other systems, mostly I have had to `double-click mouse-1' to activate anything. To me in a strange system, `double-click mouse-1' is a sure activation command. Some programs need two, some need one. We had a long discussion of this, and decided that most users would expect a single click to follow a link or activate a button.