From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:26:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87d5qpt23j.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118777132 8951 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2005 19:25:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:25:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 14 21:25:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiH1B-00016w-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:24:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiH6F-0003Bm-5s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiH52-0002O5-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:28:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiH50-0002MK-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:28:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiH50-0002Ls-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:28:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DiH53-0001Rt-US for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:26:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: <87d5qpt23j.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> (message from Daniel Brockman on Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:00:48 +0200) 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:38826 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38826 In what way is it ok to highlight a piece of text as a familiar web browser link, and then _not_ bind the familiar mouse-1 to follow it? 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. For example, just a few moments ago, I used it to set point in message summary buffer. 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. The question here for Emacs is threefold: * what is backwards compatible, * what is not too strange, and * what can novices figure out without help from others? For activating links, `double-click mouse-1' answers those questions. `mouse-2' is easier but requires reading documentation (for another program back in 1983 I remember learning that `middle is menu'; I had to relearn that binding). -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc