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Info header line does not respect mouse-1-click-follows-link

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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 374 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#374: Info header line does not respect	mouse-1-click-follows-link
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:44:36 +0200

Drew Adams wrote:
>>> The point here is about users being _able_ to have the traditional
>>> (pre-22)behavior, not about setting the traditional 
>>> behavior as the default.
>> Wouldn't that need be much less if the links where underlined or only 
>> underlined links where followed by mouse-1 (as I wrote in the 
>> previous comment to your proposal)?

> It has nothing to do with link appearance. (It would not help to underline links
> in Dired.) Quite the contrary: I don't want to have to look carefully to see if
> I'm clicking on a link, just to select a buffer. I don't want to check whether
> text is underlined or whatever.

Thanks, I see. But I believe many people would think differently since 
they have learned otherwise from for example web browsers.

But with that I do not want to say I am against your proposal for an 
option. Personally I do not mind.

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