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* Why mouse-1/2/3 ?
@ 2020-04-25 17:45 ndame
  2020-04-25 18:19 ` Zach Pearson
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From: ndame @ 2020-04-25 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs developers

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I don't use the mouse in emacs at all, but when browsing info mouse-2 caught my eye.

Why emacs calls these mouse-1, 2 and 3? Wouldn't it be more user friendly to say
left mouse button, middle mouse button and right mouse button?

I checked what terminology Gnome uses:

"Press the right mouse button on any local folder"

https://help.gnome.org/users/shares-admin/stable/tool-getting-started.html.en_GB

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* Re: Why mouse-1/2/3 ?
@ 2020-04-27 10:37 ndame
  2020-04-27 10:40 ` tomas
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 43+ messages in thread
From: ndame @ 2020-04-27 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs developers

> What is the "established terminology"?

Left button, middle button, right button. I know no mainstream tool
which calls the left button mouse-1, etc




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* Re: Why mouse-1/2/3 ?
@ 2020-04-27 10:50 ndame
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 43+ messages in thread
From: ndame @ 2020-04-27 10:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs developers

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> Then your world is too small :-)
>
> X has always called those buttons 1, 2, 3.

User usually don't deal with X directly, but with KDE, Gnome, etc

And they don't call it mouse-1, they use the more established

terminology.

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* Re: Why mouse-1/2/3 ?
@ 2020-04-27 11:23 ndame
  2020-04-27 11:31 ` tomas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 43+ messages in thread
From: ndame @ 2020-04-27 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs developers

> Like a friend of mine said the other day: "why do the people have to speak
> constantly English and don't speak German, as everyone else does?" :-)

Yep. It's like saying Emacs doesn't need to adapt, if someone wants to use it
then learn the emacs terminology.

There were other threads about making emacs easier to use, less alien. Little
arbitray differences from mainstream systems add up and make emacs less familiar
for no good reason.

An other example is the window/frame  vs pane/window difference, though I realize
that's much harder to change, considering that all of emacs uses it. That may be
too much work and may not be worth the effort to change it.

But if smaller differences which may not need much work can be eliminated then
they should be.



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2020-04-27 13:29   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
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