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Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link
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Daniel Brockman |
Subject: |
Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:56:52 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
> I have set mouse-1-click-follows-link to nil in my .emacs for a
> while now. I found it harder to work out when I need to hold down
> mouse-1 that bit longer to not follow a link, than to press mouse-2
> when I did want to follow a link (and this is with a two button
> mouse which emulates mouse-2).
Most mice these days seem to come with two proper buttons and a
clickable scroll wheel. On these devices, you usually need to _click_
the scroll wheel to generate a mouse-2 event. This is often much more
difficult than clicking two ordinary buttons simultaneously.
I currently don't have a mouse, but when I do use one I generally
don't use it for moving around in the buffer a lot. I do tend to use
it to follow links such as URLs and those in Customize buffers.
Besides, most buffers don't have a high link density, so you can
usually just click next to one and then move point into place using
the keyboard. Dragging works as usual in any case.
> I was constantly going places that I didn't want to go and I find
> the old behaviour a lot easier.
I suspect most people who feel like you will instantly realize that
they liked the old behavior better, type C-h n and search for `mouse'.
This will immediately give clues about how to switch back.
On the other hand, many people new to Emacs will not even attempt to
click the scroll wheel to follow a link. (Even given the tooltip.)
After seeing that nothing happens when you click links using mouse-1,
people will conclude that Emacs does not support clickable links.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I really think the current
default is the most useful and reasonable, _especially_ to newcomers,
but also to lots of experienced people (myself included).
--
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>
- mouse-1-click-follows-link, Nick Roberts, 2005/06/10
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link,
Daniel Brockman <=
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Nick Roberts, 2005/06/11
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Daniel Brockman, 2005/06/11
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Nick Roberts, 2005/06/12
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Richard Stallman, 2005/06/12
- RE: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Drew Adams, 2005/06/13
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Jason Rumney, 2005/06/13
- RE: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Drew Adams, 2005/06/13
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Jason Rumney, 2005/06/13
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, David Kastrup, 2005/06/13
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Jason Rumney, 2005/06/13