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Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:52:15 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:
> Kim Storm wrote:
>
> But CVS emacs is still far from being released,
>
> If we keep going on like this, there _never_ will be another release.
I agree, but I think this is an important issue.
>
> and I guess that if we make a clean interface how to inhibit the
> mapping for specific links, the package authors will have plenty
> of time to adapt their code for CVS emacs.
>
> It is also a matter of not only documenting the new behavior, but also
> changing references to the old behavior everywhere in all manuals,
> which may be spread all over the place.
This is a general - but user customizable - change in behaviour.
As such, we should need to document the current "standard" behaviour,
and then add a section at an appropriate place which says something
like (need to be elaborated on a little bit):
Whenever you can click with mouse-2 to follow a link, you may also be
able to follow the link by a double click or a short click with
mouse-1. The actual mouse-1 action that you need to follow a link is
controlled by the user option mouse-1-click-follows-link.
One problem is the tooltips which say "click mouse-2 to ...".
To fix that requires that we change all places where the tooltips
are created (unless there is some place we can put in a clever
rewrite of the message).
> Realistically speaking,
> implementing the new behavior will introduce bugs that will need to be
> fixed. Everything combined, plenty of resources will be diverted from
> working on the release, assuming we still want to have one.
I don't think there will be many bugs related to this -- some but not many.
> I have not been following this discussion, as I have had no time to do
> so. I thought the purpose of a feature freeze was exactly that people
> would not have to divert time away from working on the release by
> worrying about substantive new features and their possible negative effects.
That's a problem of a feature freeze that's in place for more than 1 year.
If you look at the change logs, new features still creap in over time.
Global warming may also be a problem :-)
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, (continued)
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Stefan Monnier, 2004/10/25
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, David Kastrup, 2004/10/25
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Stefan Monnier, 2004/10/25
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Kim F. Storm, 2004/10/26
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, David Kastrup, 2004/10/26
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Kim F. Storm, 2004/10/26
- RE: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Drew Adams, 2004/10/26
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, David Kastrup, 2004/10/26
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Kim F. Storm, 2004/10/26
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/10/26
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/10/27
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, David Kastrup, 2004/10/27
- feature freeze (was: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text), Reiner Steib, 2004/10/27
- Re: feature freeze (was: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text), Kim F. Storm, 2004/10/27
- Re: feature freeze, David Kastrup, 2004/10/27
- RE: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Drew Adams, 2004/10/27
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Kim F. Storm, 2004/10/28
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Richard Stallman, 2004/10/27
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Richard Stallman, 2004/10/27
- Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text, Richard Stallman, 2004/10/27