Re: MT-Newswatcher feature request

In article <leo-643EFC.18072606082006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Leonard Blaisdell <leo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <barmar-BA3F67.20425106082006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Barry Margolin <barmar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In other words, it will be just like most other applications that
automatically recognize URLs in text. And as with those other
applications, the solution is to click the mouse outside the URL, and
then swipe over it.

Then what? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always believed that
a proper Usenet URL ref is in the form <http://...> and doesn't require
a swipe.

You missed the part right before that, where he quoted the message he was
replying to. Sander had said:

I hope it remains Cmd key-dependant. Otherwise when you want to select
a URL it'll be tricky to not activate it.

In other words, when you want to click on an URL *without* having it follow
the link. Such as when you're typing a new message, and want to make a
change in the middle of an URL. Or when you want to select & copy part or
all of an URL so you can paste it into another document or message.

If a newsreader (or email program or word processor) treats a click on an
URL like web browsers do, you can't edit or copy a link the same way you'd
edit text anywhere else in that app. Barry's solution is to click outside
the URL and "swipe" (drag) the mouse into/over the URL, which works but is
inconsistent with how you'd edit or select text anywhere else in the app.
Another solution is to click outside the URL and then use the arrow keys to
move into the URL, but that's just as bad, especially when it's a long URL.

I agree with Sander. Newsreaders should *not* let you open a link by just
clicking on it; they should use a command-click, or a contextual menu, so
that text editing behaves consistently throughout the entire app.
.

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