Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text

[Ralf Angeli]

* Stefan Monnier (2004-10-25) writes:

> I quite understand this part.
> It's clear that Kim's patch can introduce undesired behavior.
> The question is how often such undesired behavior happens in practice.
>
> I suspect that the number of packages where moving point into a piece of
> text with the `mouse-face' property does anything more than move point

With tex-fold.el (part of AUCTeX) there is another package which
reveals text which is hidden by a display property if point is moved
horizontally into the respective area.

> (while left-clicking only moves point)

In tex-fold.el left-clicking currently will reveal the folded text.
(Similar to preview-latex there is an overlay on the text with
'mouse-face set.)  The reactions to mouse clicks will be synchronized
with preview-latex in the future.  What actions will be triggered by
mouse-1 and mouse-2 will be subject to discussion.

> is extremely small.  `preview-latex'
> is very much unusual in this respect.

Well, there is preview-latex and tex-fold.el.  And Talcum
(<URL:http://talcum.sarovar.org/>) reveals text on cursor movement as
well.  I didn't check how it behaves with regard to mouse clicks,
though.

-- 
Ralf