address@hidden: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in dired surprising]

[Richard Stallman]

Bagley argues that the file names in dired should be highlighted as links
so as to avoid surprise.

What do others think?

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From: Doug Bagley <address@hidden>
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> You could try editing the code in Dired to highlight all the file names.
> Does that help you, do you find?

Yes, somewhat. I did a quick experiment of overriding
dired-insert-set-properties to have it set a font-lock-face. It's too
inelegant for a real solution, but I did like the additional visual
information indicting that the filenames were links. 

- -Doug
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