> Most mice these days seem to come with two proper buttons and a > clickable scroll wheel. On these devices, you usually need to _click_ > the scroll wheel to generate a mouse-2 event. This is often much more > difficult than clicking two ordinary buttons simultaneously. > > I currently don't have a mouse, but when I do use one I generally > don't use it for moving around in the buffer a lot. I do tend to use > it to follow links such as URLs and those in Customize buffers.
Perhaps this is an argument for using mouse-1 just in those situations i.e generally where text is underlined, if possible (the Help buffer is another example) > Besides, most buffers don't have a high link density, so you can > usually just click next to one and then move point into place using > the keyboard. Dragging works as usual in any case. Some like grep, seem to cover a lot of the buffer. I'm not saying that you can't get round it, just that it requires thought. > > I was constantly going places that I didn't want to go and I find > > the old behaviour a lot easier. > > I suspect most people who feel like you will instantly realize that > they liked the old behavior better, type C-h n and search for `mouse'. > This will immediately give clues about how to switch back. > > On the other hand, many people new to Emacs will not even attempt to > click the scroll wheel to follow a link. (Even given the tooltip.) > After seeing that nothing happens when you click links using mouse-1, > people will conclude that Emacs does not support clickable links. If they are able to to find mouse-1-click-follows-link in the manual then clicking on the scroll wheel shouldn't be too difficult. > I guess what I'm trying to say is that I really think the current > default is the most useful and reasonable, _especially_ to newcomers, > but also to lots of experienced people (myself included). You have expressed your preference but I'm not sure that it generalises to others. Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
