From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why mouse-1/2/3 ?
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:29:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d194ccaa-adc1-e16f-c6a8-97de64af9e4e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a72xgp3a.fsf@yahoo.com>
On 27/04/2020 07.11, Po Lu wrote:
> ndame <ndame@protonmail.com> writes:
>
>> Left button, middle button, right button. I know no mainstream tool
>> which calls the left button mouse-1, etc
>
> Emacs is older than the so-called "mainstream tools", and Emacs programs
> and users are used to said terminology. If it were to change, many
> packages would break, and many users habits would have to break too.
What packages would break, exactly?
I haven't seen anyone suggest a breaking change.
Besides, Emacs users are also used to the mouse-left / mouse-right terminology, since most of them use more than just Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-27 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-27 10:37 Why mouse-1/2/3 ? 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 [this message]
2020-04-27 13:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-27 13:27 ` ndame
2020-04-27 15:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
2020-04-27 10:50 ndame
2020-04-25 17:45 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
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
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