From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: ndame Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why mouse-1/2/3 ? Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:45:44 +0000 Message-ID: References: <97DB3D40-872D-4958-83CE-2FB3AB171E7C@zjp.codes> <87v9lmx508.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: ndame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="39641"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Zach Pearson , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 27 11:47:06 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jT0Ly-000ACa-Ku for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:47:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35216 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT0Lx-0005yl-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 05:47:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT0Kn-0004s7-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 05:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT0Kl-0008Uj-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 05:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40135.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.135]:58912) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT0Kk-0008UP-1S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 05:45:50 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1587980746; bh=06r5FNj6gF7LPZPw/DF5Fof3Uma1kCdDZW+EOKIF1CM=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=ctuuCvH1jVtDfHp3sP3xhY2D5o4lywTUExierTs3QriXCtN0fW5pFN8dMt2J8yhin O7xe+J6q7szWR0X62x5ct1lY2ud9Wyy8sI9W+spQNFAcxiH5Hr6YFZStB7dc8a8LXU Hw5xxrG8Ugg4EtvULqbtXYoKgEyxCsEk0ccezX0Q= In-Reply-To: <87v9lmx508.fsf@yahoo.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.135; envelope-from=ndame@protonmail.com; helo=mail-40135.protonmail.ch X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/27 05:45:46 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.70.40.135 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247896 Archived-At: On Sunday, April 26, 2020 6:09 AM, Po Lu wrote: > Zach Pearson zach@zjp.codes writes: > > > Some people use the buttons in reverse order or otherwise don=E2=80= =99t have mice that conform to the standard that wording would expect. I do= n=E2=80=99t think it takes too much cognitive > > overhead to map 1/2/3 to left/right/middle for users of those kinds of = mice. > > Actually, 1/2/3 is left/middle/right This exchange also raises the question: is there an advantage of naming mouse buttons with numbers, instead of using the established terminology what pretty much all maintream tools use?