From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mouse-1 click follows link
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:49:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r7nfgihg.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410310009.i9V09DM03843@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:09:13 -0500 (CDT)")
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> Kim Storm wrote:
>
> > Hopefully I am misunderstanding this, as it would obviously be
> > disastrous, even for an optional feature.
>
> Can you elaborate on this?
>
> Yes. You blindly rebind mouse-1 to mouse-2 without having the
> _slightest_ idea what mouse-2 is bound to.
That's true.
> On the other hand, if the behavior only occurs when the text has the
> link property, then it only occurs for things somebody has explicitly
> checked. The only thing that can happen for overlooked "true" links
> is that mouse-1 sets point instead of following the link. No real
> harm happened and the user can file a bug report. Eventually all real
> links will be accounted for.
Hm. I'm starting to agree that the blind remapping is too intrusive.
A non-nil 'link property is definitely a safer mechanism to recognize
when this feature should be activated.
I'll think more about this approach.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-31 12:49 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 [this message]
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
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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