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

[Richard Stallman]

    Among the many applications I use, which follow links with a single 
    mouse-1 click, I recently observed that they fall into two groups, each 
    handling this behavior in one of two slightly different ways:  (1)  
    Follow link whenever mouse-1 is clicked while it is over link, with no 
    exceptions;  or (2)  Follow link when mouse-1 is clicked while it is 
    over link ONLY IF the window is the current selected window, otherwise, 
    simply select the window.

    Emacs 22 implements the first as its default behavior.  But I, and I 
    suspect others, would prefer to have the option to customize Emacs to 
    exhibit the second behavior.  (By the way, in Emacs, I'm using "selected 
    window" to mean the Emacs window with the active cursor.)

That could be a good feature to add.  I hesitate to add it now,
though.