From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [NEW PATCH] mouse-1 click follows link
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:13:55 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1CeJ3T-0004R4C@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3acsg9ai9.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (storm@cua.dk)
** A mouse-1 click now follows links
For historical reasons, Emacs uses mouse-2 to take action on
clickable text in a buffer ...
Please explain why. The main reason was good -- the Emacs pattern
very much followed those human interface guidelines which say to make
the most common actions easy.
To me, the use of mouse-1 to follow links is odd, since I mainly use
it to set point, and I do that far more often than follow links.
I am not saying that you should not change the pattern, but that it is
worth remembering that the prime reason is more than historical
accident.
--
Robert J. Chassell
bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-14 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-29 13:04 [PATCH] mouse-1 click follows link Kim F. Storm
2004-10-29 23:54 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-30 22:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-31 0:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-31 12:49 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-11-01 7:24 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-31 0:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-31 12:53 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-31 15:24 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-31 18:37 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-31 20:03 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-31 20:13 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-31 21:40 ` Stefan
2004-10-31 23:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-11-01 0:33 ` Stefan
2004-11-27 0:44 ` [NEW PATCH] " Kim F. Storm
[not found] ` <E1CYJ5T-0002qS-UR@fencepost.gnu.org>
2004-12-14 15:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-12-14 20:13 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2004-12-14 23:33 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-12-16 23:08 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-12-17 9:57 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-12-17 10:20 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-12-15 8:46 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-16 12:24 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-16 15:12 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-12-18 0:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-18 13:50 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-17 15:48 ` Kim F. Storm
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