Re: finger-pointer curser as default for mouse-face text

[Richard Stallman]

    Anyway: if we really try modelling ourselves after other systems: in
    file managers and the like, one usually selects a single item (and
    placed point) by a single click, and executes it by a double click.

File managers and browsers represent two different UI traditions, so
they provide different models to follow.  Some things in Emacs are
clearly links; it makes no sense for them to act like file managers.