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.
You are an experienced Emacs user, not a beginner coming to Emacs from
other GUIs. We've decided that this default should be good for them,
because you know how to change it.
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.
Some programs need two, some need one. We had a long discussion
of this, and decided that most users would expect a single click
to follow a link or activate a button.
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