Re: Don't open link on left mouse click

Robin Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID <CAOCtVxZbHBK0kUvyP1Q=fPB58CdTz8mm3XEvxxBqigjsGr+_5w@mail.gmail.com>
In w3m single click selects, double click or a single click followed by
Enter also follows it. IMO for text-based interface it’s pretty well
thought. Though I can see the drive to emulate GUI browser behavior, hence
the ask is for a config option.

On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 3:43 AM David Woolley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 02/08/2022 11:18, Robin Stern wrote:
> > It would be nice to have a config option to specify mouse left click
> behavior (goto a link, but don't follow it), or an ability to remap MOUSE.
> w3m also just selects a link on mouse click.
>
> Single click link following has been the standard for graphical browsers
> since the beginning and was inherited from earlier hypertext formats,
> like PDF.  I've never seen an option to disable it on those, and yes it
> difficult to select text in a link to copy it, in graphical browsers.
>
>
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