Re: suggested new command `picture-mouse-set-point'

[Richard Stallman]

    > Maybe there could be a `mouse-set-point-function' variable that would
    > be funcalled where `mouse-set-point' is presently called directly, or
    > `mouse-set-point' could call `mouse-set-point-rigidly' iff
    > `mouse-set-point-rigidly' variable was non-nil, or something like
    > that?

This is gratuitous complexity on a point that is not terribly important.
The added feature in picture.el that JPW already wrote is worth adding,
but I don't want to go any further.