From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions? Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 19:48:13 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022010658 6995 127.0.0.1 (21 May 2002 19:50:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 19:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17AFes-0001oi-00 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 21:50:58 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17AFtS-0006Gt-00 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 22:06:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17AFf6-0006Vt-00; Tue, 21 May 2002 15:51:12 -0400 Original-Received: from megalith.rattlesnake.com ([140.186.114.245] helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17AFcF-0006Db-00 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 15:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Tue, 21 May 2002 19:48:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Simon Josefsson on Tue, 21 May 2002 19:43:24 +0200) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4251 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4251 Btw, do ANY other application have this mouse1 + mouse3 mark text feature? I haven't seen it before. You must have been using poorly designed applications. The two button marking technique often makes it easier for people to mark a specified region than dragging. (Sometimes dragging works OK -- it depends on the situation.) IMHO dropping this feature in favor of activating buttons and links with mouse-1 is more user friendly .. We should never reduce the quality of the Emacs user interface just because other applications use worse interfaces. Please suggest to the developers of other applications that they improve their work. (Besides improving the methods for copying, please ask these developers to implement incremental search, which is a highly comfortable and efficient way to navigate.) -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com