On 6/14/05, Jason Rumney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 5) The delay for mouse-1 to set point > > The delay for mouse-1 to set point is completely unintuitive, and no > other application I have ever seen works that way.
Yes I agree, this behavior constantly drives me nuts, even though I know about it; I suspect such subtle click-timing-dependent behavior is potentially very confusing for newbies, who will end up thinking Emacs is just flaky. I think the behavior of mouse-1 should _not_ depend on the timing of one's clicks at all, at least by default. A choice must be made for each mode whether mouse-1 sets the point or follows the links. For many read-only buffers with "underlined links" or buttons, this is pretty obvious: mouse-1 should just follow the link / click the button. For something like Gnus group or summary buffers, it's a little less obvious (both setting the point and clicking the link are useful), but I think never-the-less, the choice must be made, the current "both" behavior just sucks too much (my feeling is that probably for Gnus, the right default is "activate", as one can usefully set the point by clicking after the end-of-line point. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
