From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Info-history-forward Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:11:43 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104282808 17622 80.91.229.6 (29 Dec 2004 01:13:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 29 02:13:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CjSOu-0004Yc-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 02:13:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CjSZn-0001tf-2R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CjSYe-0001YH-BM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:23:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CjSYd-0001Xk-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:23:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CjSYc-0001XW-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:23:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.229] (helo=agminet02.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CjSNV-0007Oj-2s; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:11:53 -0500 Original-Received: from agminet02.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agminet02.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id iBT1BnGv007978; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:11:49 -0800 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.50]) by agminet02.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id iBT1BlHH007948; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:11:47 -0800 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id iBT1BkBm022246; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:11:46 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-82-248.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.82.248]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with SMTP id iBT1BjAh022233 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:11:46 -0700 Original-To: , X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31553 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31553 > Five-button mice often have mouse-5 and mouse-4 bound by > default to forward and back for Web browsing etc. > I'd suggest these bindings in `info' for > Emacs too, by default. At the least I think it would have to be a system-specific binding -- mouse-4 and mouse-5 represent the scroll-wheel on X systems, and it would definitely be bad to bind the scroll-wheel to backward/forward-history! In general it seems as if anything except buttons 1-3 may be too inconsistently defined to have a very useful default binding. [a shame, because some mice seem to have about 20 "buttons" of one sort or another!] Yes, a shame (although I'll no doubt steer clear of *20*-button mice - sounds diabolically teratological, and they likely just return "42", which is not the answer I'm looking for). Depending on how similar the various platforms behave in this regard, perhaps it could be the default value for those platforms for which it works? The thing about "X systems" is not clear to me. I use this on both Windows (21.3.50) and Linux (21.3.1) - I use the mouse wheel (e.g. for scrolling) and I still have `mouse-4' bound to `Info-last'. On Linux I have the impression that I'm using X Window :-). Just what is the platform-specific caveat? What am I blissfully missing? Thanks, Drew