Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link: doc, Options menu, customize groups

[Kevin Rodgers]

Drew Adams wrote:
> I fired up GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2005-01-30 on
> NONIQPC and discovered that mouse-1 was now following links. Not 
remembering
> the email thread about this, I looked in Emacs itself for how to turn 
this
> new behavior off.
>
> I didn't find anything about it in the Emacs manual or the Emacs Lisp
> manual. I searched everywhere for "mouse-1" (and that's a lot of hits).

The first place to look for information on new features is NEWS (C-h n),
isn't it?

> I tried looking in Customize by browsing groups. Starting at the top, I
> didn't see anything about "mouse", so I tried group "convenience" - to no
> avail.
>
> After I searched my emacs-devel email and found the name
> `mouse-1-follows-link', I searched Info for that, still to no avail. 
I tried
> `describe-variable' and then clicked the customize link, finding that the
> only group for this option is "mouse".

I would have started with `C-h v mouse?' which lists it straight away.

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Kevin Rodgers