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

[Miles Bader]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:42:25 +0100, Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> wrote:
> > If it's being enabled automagically by Emacs, perhaps that mechanism
> > needs adjustment (or Gnus needs to tweak it).  I guess the reasons why
> > m1fl is inappropriate in these places are (1) there are many commands
> > one can use (and are commonly uesd) on each "link", and (2) they don't
> > look like links anyway.
> 
> Why isn't mouse-face and hand pointer enough to differentiate them?

Apparently not.

I'm not sure what to say except I'm constantly being surprised and
annoyed by the mouse-1 behavior in Gnus due to mouse-1-follows-link,
whereas it seems "natural" in other places; I suppose the odd delay
before activation also makes it more worse (there's a funny feeling of
"disconnect" between the click and the resulting action).

[To tell the truth what might be nicest for Gnus is to have a
right-click menu which would present the various alternate ways of
entering the group under the mouse pointer -- the current behavior of
`mouse-save-then-kill' doesn't seem particularly useful...
Unfortunately right-click menus are not an established standard in
Emacs, so I dunno if they'd fly here or not.]

-Miles
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