mouse-1-click-follows-link is hard to use

[Ralf Angeli]

As I am not really a fan of mouse-2 I was very delighted that support
for mouse-1 clicks on certain links was added.  Now after using it for
quite some time I must say that I tend to revert to mouse-2 because
clicking with mouse-1 succeeds in only about 50% of cases for me.

One reason for this is that I am sometimes not releasing the mouse
button fast enough.  Okay, this could be remedied by customizing
`mouse-1-click-follows-link'.

The second reason is the delay until the action associated with the
click is actually performed and that one has to keep the mouse pointer
over the link in order for the action to happen.  Besides the delay
being annoying, I often move the cursor off the link area before the
action is carried out.

I hope I don't start another of these endless discussions about this
feature but for being useful, I think, it should behave more like in
other applications.  That means the action should be carried out
without any delay as soon as mouse-1 is released.


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