Re: Difficulty with mouse-1-click-follows-link

[Kim F. Storm]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

>> As the author of the feature, I just want to point out that originally
>> I did not include double-click support, but I added it on request from RMS.
>>
>> If it turns out to be a major obstackle for using the feature (I haven't
>> had that experience myself), I don't mind removing it.
>
> Just to avoid a misunderstanding: the change I made (removing the
> sit-for call in mouse-drag-region-1) doesn't affect the double-click
> support.  Setting mouse-1-click-follows-link to 'double still has the
> same results: it makes a double-click rather than a single click
> follow the link.  As far as I can see, there are no bad side-effects
> to the change.

IIRC, the code you removed was intended to make a double-click do the
normal action at point rather than following the link 
(when mouse-1-click-follows-link != double-click).

I'm not sure how useful that feature was, but it was added on request
from RMS.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk