Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The general idea of a delay. As I pointed out in my subsequent
>> message, it is impossible to use the mouse to set the point in a Gnus,
>> grep or similar buffer now if you are using a touchpad or similar
>> pointing device that does not allow "holding" a tap.
>
> It is not impossible -- if you drag the mouse in the link, you
> just set point there (if you drag back to the start point).

You don't need to actually drag.  You just tap and then hold.  Like
with a normal mouse, except that the tap corresponds to mouse-down.
Like it always does when using the touchpad.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum