Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link

[Lennart Borgman]

Jason Rumney wrote:

> Especially so since it isn't actually used for that, though many
> people beleive it to be, and probably end up thinking they get a 50%
> success rate as a result. To rename a file in Windows you click once on
> the file to select it, and a second time within the text to edit
> it. Cells in spreadsheets work the same way.
>  
Ehum, thanks. Well I said at least that the mouse clicking behaviour 
confused me ;-)

I think this is kind of a hidden feature and I dislike that. What I like 
instead are behaviours like this:

- mouse-1 click does an easily recognized function, like setting point 
or focus. Or, if it is something similar in look to a web browser link, 
then it should be a link and that link should be followed.

- mouse-1 double-click could be used to kind of opening functions when 
mouse-1 click is used to set focus.

- mouse-2 are used for less often used things - and it should pop up a 
menus for those things. (Though of course I realize that Emacs has 
choosen a different path here and that this could not be changed now.)