Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Simon Josefsson <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 20:14:22 +0200
> 
> > (You don't need a mouse for Emacs.  Indeed, about a half hour ago, I
> > was connected, via an ssh hop to a machine and then from there via
> > telnet, through a slow connection (perhaps 1200 baud; traceroute
> > indicated some sort of trouble in Newark, NJ) to a third machine,
> > using Emacs without a mouse.)
> 
> Congratulations. :-)   I would call such an environment unusable from a
> usability point of view.

I think this is a very biased point of view.  Quite a few people have
slow connections and need to run Emacs via them.