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Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link
From: |
Daniel Brockman |
Subject: |
Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:26:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> The idea of having mouse-1-clock-follows-link activated by default
> is to make it easier for beginners accustomed to web browsers
Not only web browsers: GUI applications in general. In every other
GUI application I can think of, mouse-1 is used for clicking buttons.
> 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.
Certainly not, but it is a major one. In the same awkward way that vi
is a text editor that doesn't respond to typing text, Emacs is a GUI
application that doesn't respond to clicking buttons.
> 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.
I believe this includes most PC systems (correct me if I'm wrong).
--
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>
- Re: What holds the release, (continued)
- Re: What holds the release (was: mouse-1-click-follows-link), Eli Zaretskii, 2005/06/16
- Re: What holds the release (was: mouse-1-click-follows-link), Juanma Barranquero, 2005/06/16
- Re: What holds the release (was: mouse-1-click-follows-link), Richard Stallman, 2005/06/17
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/06/14
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Juanma Barranquero, 2005/06/14
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Stefan Monnier, 2005/06/13
- RE: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Drew Adams, 2005/06/13
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link,
Daniel Brockman <=
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Stefan Monnier, 2005/06/14
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, David Abrahams, 2005/06/13
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Lennart Borgman, 2005/06/14
- RE: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Drew Adams, 2005/06/14
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Stefan Monnier, 2005/06/14
- RE: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Drew Adams, 2005/06/14
- RE: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Drew Adams, 2005/06/15
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Daniel Brockman, 2005/06/15
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, Richard Stallman, 2005/06/16
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link, David Kastrup, 2005/06/13