Re: address@hidden: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in dired surprising]

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Bagley argues that the file names in dired should be highlighted as links
> so as to avoid surprise.
>
> What do others think?

I think it would be ugly and distracting.

> From: Doug Bagley <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in dired surprising
> To: address@hidden
>
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>> You could try editing the code in Dired to highlight all the file names.
>> Does that help you, do you find?
>
> Yes, somewhat. I did a quick experiment of overriding
> dired-insert-set-properties to have it set a font-lock-face. It's too
> inelegant for a real solution, but I did like the additional visual
> information indicting that the filenames were links. 
>
> - -Doug
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