Re: Keybinding for finding definition by mouse

[Tobias Gerdin <tgerdin@gmail.com>]

Den 2018-07-09 kl. 20:42, skrev Yuri Khan:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:50 AM Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>
>>>> Wishful thinking would be to also have 'xref-pop-marker-stack' bound to
>>>> some mouse event
>>> That looks good on <mouse-8>, also known as history back. Possibly
>>> also <M-mouse-5> aka Alt+scroll down, for those people who for some
>>> reason don’t have back/forward buttons.
>> Interesting choice.  Is that "history back" or "mouse-8" really a mouse
>> button?
> Yes. A common mouse design has a left and right button (1 and 3
> respectively; can be reversed for left-handed users), a scroll wheel
> (button 2 when clicked; 4 and 5 when turned up and down; on some
> models, it can also be tilted left and right for horizontal scrolling,
> X11 calls this buttons 6 and 7), and one or two thumb buttons (one for
> going back in browser history, another forward; these are numbered 8
> and 9).
>
> Popping mark in general, and going back from a “find definition”, are
> sufficiently semantically close to a “browser back” to be bound to the
> same button.
I like this choice. But on macOS my 5-button mouse (no tilt) the buttons 
on the left and right of the mouse are reported as mouse-4 and mouse-5, 
so perhaps this differs between X11 and macOS? (which could be accounted 
for of course)

-Tobias