Re: Unable to use File Open Panel
On Mar 25, 20:46, Charles G Waldman wrote:
I disagree. One of the nice things about Emacs, IMO, is consistency
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I can always select text for copying by holding down the left mouse
button and wiping the mouse across a region of text. Even if the text
is in the *Info* buffer. And this is a good thing. It's nice that I
can easily copy text out of the Info buffer if I want to, say, mail it
to someone. Or similarly for W3 - you can copy and paste out of web
pages using normal XEmacs mouse bindings; you can, unlike Netscape,
select a hyperlink to copy as text without jumping to it.
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FWIW, I agree with Charles in this.
If you put a new user directly into W3 there could be some confusion in
that mouse-1 doesn't "work", however there's no confusion if the user
comes from *XEmacs* -- you know that when something gets highlighted
by moving the mouse cursor over it it means you can press the middle
button to select it.
A new user will learn this quickly, although there could maybe be some
trouble if the user kept switching between Netscape and W3 all the time.
I don't think that's a big problem and in any case it's a small price to
pay for a consistent XEmacs interface.
IMHO, of course.
- Tor