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

[Richard Stallman]

    Yes, the applications I tried behaved as you thought -- the selection
    is canceled if you click anywhere (inside or outside the selection).
    But Emacs already behaves this way from what I can tell.

Yes, it does, but we were thinking of trying to add this
drag-the-selection feature; the point is that a click in the selection
(or out of it) should deselect it.