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

[Kim F. Storm]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> 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 current setting is a compromise -- and yes, you can customize it.

>
> 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.

It is true that moving the mouse - while pressed - will not trigger the
mouse-2 action on the link.  Perhaps small moves should be acceptable...

Do you say that it doesn't work if you move the mouse AFTER releasing mouse-1?

>
> 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.

The reason for the delay is to be able to detect a double mouse-1 click.

Perhaps it shouldn't do that ...   WDOT?

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk