From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:03:39 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8564wi2ag7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <851x753np7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42AE70EE.4080804@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118732508 20077 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2005 07:01:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:01:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Drew Adams , miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 14 09:01:46 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Di5QC-0004iY-3d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:01:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Di5V9-0004Xw-4H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:06:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Di5UP-0004St-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:05:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Di5UM-0004Rz-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Di5UL-0004Rd-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Di5UM-00057I-Rr; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5E74Hch031263; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:04:17 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374A2DDDF8; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:04:43 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <42AE70EE.4080804@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:53:50 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) 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:38787 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38787 Lennart Borgman writes: > Miles Bader wrote: > >>On 6/14/05, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> >>>The "hold >>>long for setting point" is, for example, also employed in the Mac >>>Finder and (I think) Windows if you want to rename a file instead of >>>start or select it. > > Yes, the use of it for renaming is very confusing. Especially so since it isn't actually used for that, though many people beleive it to be, and probably end up thinking they get a 50% success rate as a result. To rename a file in Windows you click once on the file to select it, and a second time within the text to edit it. Cells in spreadsheets work the same way.