Re: Unable to use File Open Panel

Andy Piper wrote: > > I don't know. In my humble opinion, Emacs users should get used to > > clicking with button2 everywhere, *or* we should do something about > > it. Kludging up individual modes in order to support the optional use > > of button1 for that purpose is clearly not the right thing. > > This is venturing onto the delete-key-deletes-forward discussion. IMHO > button clicks and key presses should generally do what the majority of > people expect them to do not what has happened historically in X/Emacs. I > think button1 should traverse hyperlink type things. Everyone is so > familiar with that metaphor because of the web that it seems crazy to have > something different. That may be appropriate for a *viewer*, but virtually every program which has a text cursor (caret) allows it to be positioned using button 1.