Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Just some more datapoints. 95% of mice on ms-windows systems I have
used in
the last 3-4 years do not have mouse 2. So my overriding concern is that it
is just too damn inconvenient to hit two mouse buttons simultanously for
common operations. Consistency does not concern me, I want XEmacs to be
useable and intuitive, certainly in ms-windows environments that means
mouse-1 for view type activities. We do it already for glyphs and other
things.
I can concede that you might not want to do this under UNIX - but our
delete key discussions have encompassed UNIX as well even though the
presence of delete is more normal under PC systems.
[Just dropping into discussion]
For me it seems quite intuitive to make the behaviour of button-1 (or should I
say click-1) dependend on the position the click took place. XEmacs is not
only a editor, it is also (in some modes) only a viewer (and will it ever be a
word processor?). You can't edit a info file right away, so making click-1 the
selector for hyperlinks is intiutive. In some editing mode, there is nothing
(normally) you can select, so setting caret with click-1 is again intiutive.
click-2 can keep its behaviour, so 'traditional' users don't get confused.
And again everything could be set by some global custom option (and make its
way into the 'user' theme -- how do we call the other main theme?
'mainainer'
theme or 'developer' theme...), and so the whole discussion becomes sort of a
delete/backspace thing.
Regards,
Oliver.