Re: Dired:: "mouse 1: visit this file in other window"

[kevin.gal]

><address@hidden> writes:
>
>> In Emacs 22, the existing middle mouse button behavior over
>> file/directory names, has been copied to the left mouse button,  that
>> is, visiting a file/directory buffer in an "other window".  Although
>> this behavior now has redundant bindings, this is not my primary concern.  I 
>> am
>> finding the new behavior to be quite annoying since, it turns out, I am a 
>> heavy
>> user of the prior behavior.
>>
>> Here's why. I often use the left mouse button to move the cursor
>> from one buffer window to another and to copy filenames in dired and
>> buffer-menu buffers via highlighting with the mouse.  Now, to get
>> the former behavior, I have to remember to hold the left mouse
>> button down for a while before letting go.  Otherwise, if I just
>> click it, in a buffer-menu or dired buffer, for example, that buffer
>> might disappear and be replaced by a file buffer or another dired
>> buffer.
>
>Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>
>Try (setq mouse-1-click-follows-link nil)

OK, a variable exists so the user can turn it off completely.  That's fine.  
But I really feel that either (1) the default key bindings should be switched, 
as I suggested above, restoring the old behavior while making the new one 
easily accessible, or (2) this variable should have a default setting of nil.