Re: comfy with mouse, why must readjust body to give RET?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 7 Feb 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> I'm sitting here very comfortable with one hand on the mouse, the
> other, say, under my chin.  As an example of what's bugging me today, I
> select, say, Files>Open Directory to do a dired on ~.  OK, it wants me
> to hit RET.  Why do I have to readjust my body just to give emacs a
> RET?  Certainly one of the three mouse keys could do a RET for the user
> in this case.

Build Emacs with Motif or (for the next version) with LessTif, and you 
have the standard file selection dialogs instead of prompts in the 
minibuffer.