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Re: follow-link not on mouse-face
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Richard M. Stallman |
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Re: follow-link not on mouse-face |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:42:25 -0400 |
I think part of the reason may have been to help show the boundary
between the line number and the line contents. That is why I suggest
that each of these parts of the line could highlight separately.
I may be mistaken, but my recollection was that people argued that:
- Highlighting the whole line was too garish and interfered with
readability. Juri mentions flicker too, which is perhaps related.
I am not sure we are talking about the same thing. I am talking about
mouse-face highlighting. Is mouse-face highlighting of the whole line
what people considered "garish"?
- People accidentally followed links by clicking mouse-1, trying to set
point.
Are you saying that the purpose of not doing mouse-highlighting on the
line number was so that Mouse-1 on the line number would not visit that
occurrence?
If so, this has been changed since. Mouse-1 on the line number DOES
visit that occurrence, and that's part of the background of the current
complaint.
Anyway, I am not sure it makes sense to say that you wanted to "set point".
Because clicking with Mouse-1 on the occur buffer DOES set point.
Then it visits the occurrence in the other window.
I argued for highlighting the whole line (for ease of use with the mouse and
to help visual alignment, as in using a ruler with a phone book), but doing
so with only (mouseover) underlining, to avoid the problem of heavy-handed
highlighting (flicker and TOO MUCH NOISE).
I am not sure what change you are arguing for. Is the change just a
matter of which face is used for the mouse-face highlighting?
To use `underline' instead of `highlight'?
I see. However, we don't want mouse-1 to be active on the whole line,
for other reasons.
Does anyone remember what those reasons were? I don't.
- follow-link not on mouse-face, Juri Linkov, 2005/10/21
- Re: follow-link not on mouse-face, Romain Francoise, 2005/10/22
- Re: follow-link not on mouse-face, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/23
- Re: follow-link not on mouse-face, David Kastrup, 2005/10/23
- Re: follow-link not on mouse-face, Romain Francoise, 2005/10/23
- Re: follow-link not on mouse-face, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/23
- Re: follow-link not on mouse-face, Romain Francoise, 2005/10/24
- Re: follow-link not on mouse-face, Juri Linkov, 2005/10/24
- Re: follow-link not on mouse-face, Romain Francoise, 2005/10/25
- RE: follow-link not on mouse-face, Drew Adams, 2005/10/25