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Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> xmodmap is increasingly obsolete and broken

Maybe, but it still works for the example given:

>   echo 'pointer = 1 3 2' |xmodmap - 1>/dev/null 2>&1

(though the OP clarified he wants to do this only in emacs)

The xinput equivalent is:
  xinput --set-button-map <device> 1 3 2
though one needs to find what <device> is.

-- HASM