Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There seems to be an increasing trend to make Emacs look and act like >> a web browser in all contexts, making it frustrating to use for text >> editing purposes. Setting the point is basic functionality, and I >> shouldn't have to cross my fingers, double tap, hold, turn around and >> touch my nose to do it. > > I'm more and more inclined to agree. > > I think the mouse-1-clock-follows-link behavior should be used (by default) > at most at a few well-tested placed. E.g. custom (where it's already > working this way in 21.4 AFAIK), help, info. But not grep, not compile, ... > > The idea of having mouse-1-clock-follows-link activated by default is to > make it easier for beginners accustomed to web browsers more than to text > editors, and maybe that makes sense, but we shouldn't overstate this case > either: the number of users we can expect to win thanks to this minor detail > is likely to be vanishingly small. It's not like the mouse-2-follows-link > convention is the only "unusual" UI aspect of Emacs. > > So maybe turning it on for a handful of cases makes sense. And keeping > a more intrusive option may also make sense for people whose system makes it > hard to generate a mouse-2 event. But the current setup has tricked me too > many times already. I know I can turn it off, but we should be careful not > to alienate our fervent disciples.
I have to say that I was surprised when I upgraded my Emacs and Gnus started working that way... and I *still* haven't been able to figure out why down-mouse-1 seems to act like down-mouse-2 but only sometimes. I was almost pleased -- because I find down-mouse-2 ergonomically hard to access -- but it was too confusing. I actually think supporting a mouse-1 double-click to follow those links would have made a lot of sense, though. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
