From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4049 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: `mouse-face' under XEmacs Date: 19 Nov 1995 08:43:02 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <199511170252.DAA23097@ssv4.dina.kvl.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144853 28388 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:14:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA19824 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 00:25:17 -0800 Original-Received: from surt.ifi.uio.no (4867@surt.ifi.uio.no [129.240.76.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 08:43:04 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by surt.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 08:43:04 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: steve@miranova.com's message of 17 Nov 1995 09:53:09 -0800 Original-Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: steve@miranova.com's message of 17 Nov 1995 09:53:09 -0800 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4049 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4049 steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) writes: > Peter is right. Highlighting on a subset of the line is only a winner > if that's the only place where a mouse click is meaningful. >>From a practical point of view, you're totally right. Clickable things should probably be highlighted when you sweep the mouse pointer over them. On the other hand, it looks so, like, gauche. I mean, highlighting the entire line, with those ragged right edges... Yuck! "Consistent, practical, logical" v. "pretty" -- I'd go with "pretty". :-) -- Home is where the cat is.