From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, ndame <ndame@protonmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Why mouse-1/2/3 ?
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 09:41:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6c9bde6-5528-48ff-b217-83bc968f8b09@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871roayjlm.fsf@yahoo.com>
> > 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?
>
> Mouse-1 is the first button on a mouse from the left.
> Mouse-2 is the second (scroll wheel) button on a mouse from the left.
> Mouse-3 is the third, and so on.
Just a nitpick:
Not necessarily. And "and so on" isn't really the case.
`mouse-4' and `mouse-5', for example, can have different
meanings for different mice. And "and so on" would mean
that additional buttons were farther and farther to the
right, which isn't the case, in general.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-26 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-25 17:45 Why mouse-1/2/3 ? ndame
2020-04-25 18:19 ` Zach Pearson
2020-04-26 4:09 ` Po Lu
2020-04-27 9:45 ` ndame
2020-04-27 9:53 ` tomas
2020-04-27 11:10 ` Po Lu
2020-04-27 11:12 ` ndame
2020-04-27 11:46 ` Po Lu
2020-04-26 4:08 ` Po Lu
2020-04-26 6:12 ` Tim Cross
2020-04-26 16:41 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-04-27 9:30 ` Po Lu
2020-04-27 9:40 ` tomas
2020-04-27 9:47 ` Pip Cet
2020-04-27 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-28 0:40 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2020-04-28 15:27 ` Drew Adams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-27 10:37 ndame
2020-04-27 10:40 ` tomas
2020-04-27 12:32 ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-04-28 2:47 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-27 10:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-04-27 10:47 ` ndame
2020-04-27 11:02 ` tomas
2020-04-27 10:53 ` ndame
2020-04-27 11:11 ` Po Lu
2020-04-27 13:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-27 13:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-27 13:27 ` ndame
2020-04-27 15:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-27 10:50 ndame
2020-04-27 11:23 ndame
2020-04-27 11:31 ` tomas
2020-04-27 13:36 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-27 13:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-27 14:08 ` tomas
2020-04-27 14:26 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-27 14:50 ` tomas
2020-04-27 16:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-27 19:04 ` chad
2020-04-28 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-28 3:48 ` Tim Cross
2020-04-27 16:01 ` Drew Adams
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