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 10:47:44 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87h7x51a8b.fsf@igel.home> 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="53799"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Emacs developers To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 27 12:48:27 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 1jT1JL-000Dtz-99 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:48:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38450 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT1JK-000390-50 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 06:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT1Io-0002cF-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 06:47:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT1Io-0000bs-4m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 06:47:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40130.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.130]:30542) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT1In-0000QK-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 06:47:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1587984470; bh=cLJWg8ojhuU1iBoAg+u1ALZ7MzVRkTfOrvRT+w5TCg0=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=BTPvczBR2lDxdxXBsdOdVGqzY3NAaPHt4ojJixEV8Fz8gTnPcvKjirkCzTjM85Zcv EXVOJ1CLz+nGwz53PSk6v9uor8UBOlgpmg6YLof2lMSpSgRM0yd3rVVhqpE1onxrKD xrsmKZbmjLcEp03h6bGlq7VtoqhPsQJiDy6xu3Kg= In-Reply-To: <87h7x51a8b.fsf@igel.home> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.130; envelope-from=ndame@protonmail.com; helo=mail-40130.protonmail.ch X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/27 06:47:51 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.70.40.130 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:247904 Archived-At: > > What is the left button for a left-hander? > Yet, Gnome docs use the terminology left and right button: "Press the right mouse button on any local folder " https://help.gnome.org/users/shares-admin/stable/tool-getting-started.html.= en_GB Windows, too and other mainstream tools. I guess left handers who switch the buttons are still able to interpret the instructions when reading the documentation. The whole point is trying to move emacs terminology nearer to mainstream usage by eliminating arbitrary differences.