Re: [NEW PATCH] mouse-1 click follows link

[Richard Stallman]

    Should I install these changes (with proper doc string)?

Yes, please do.

      For historical reasons, Emacs uses mouse-2 to take action on
    clickable text in a buffer, typically to follow a link to a position
    in another file or buffer.

It is not just historical reasons.  Mouse-2 fits in better with the
usual Emacs mouse bindings than Mouse-1.  We've decided to give higher
priority to compatibility with other programs, at the cost of fitting
in not quite as well.

    But what about the Emacs manual? Would a it suffice to put a generic
    mentioning like this somewhere (I would add this to NEWS as well):

I suggest you grep for Mouse-2 and for Mouse-1, and change the places
that need changing.