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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:46:50 -0500
> 
> FWIW, I think a better UI is to pop a menu for a "long press".
> I.e. bind it to down-mouse-3 but wait a little and if there's not been
> any "mouse-up" event with 1s or so, then pop up the contextual menu.

Is it a good idea to invent a UI that is unlike anything out there in
any other GUI application, at least AFAIK?  Last time Emacs did that
there was no other app around, but not so nowadays...