From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: allan gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: query: remapping a mouse press Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:13:12 -0400 Message-ID: <87d0u37btj.fsf@nyu.edu> References: <87lg8wg5qi.fsf@nyu.edu> <875zzx2e49.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <8736v0vntf.fsf@nyu.edu> <87lg8szu3c.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <87va7wu684.fsf@nyu.edu> <87bm9ng6vs.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535404305 27204 195.159.176.226 (27 Aug 2018 21:11:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:11:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 27 23:11:41 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fuOnV-0006wb-Dw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:11:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuOpb-0004ZC-Bo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuOp9-0004Z7-IU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:13:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuOp4-0007rq-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:13:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.cims.nyu.edu ([128.122.49.99]:54828) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuOp4-0007qs-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:13:18 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by mx.cims.nyu.edu (8.15.1+Sun/8.15.1) with ESMTPS id w7RLDD0i028934 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:13:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from E7450.localdomain (ool-18be58aa.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.88.170]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id w7RLDCGg000411 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: by E7450.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 72FDF4536B; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:13:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87bm9ng6vs.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> (hw's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:35:03 +0200") X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.99]); Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:13:14 -0400 (EDT) for IP:'128.122.49.97' DOMAIN:'SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU' HELO:'smtp.cs.nyu.edu' FROM:'gottlieb@nyu.edu' RCPT:'' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.99]); Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:13:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.4 at mx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.80 on 128.122.49.99 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 128.122.49.99 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117779 Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 27 2018, hw wrote: > allan gottlieb writes: > >> On Sun, Aug 26 2018, hw wrote: >> >>> allan gottlieb writes: >>> >>>> On Sun, Aug 26 2018, hw wrote: >>>> >>>>> allan gottlieb writes: >>>>> >> [...] >>>> I believe that this use of xinput I accomplish with xmodmap. >>> >>> How did you do that? >> [...] >> >> I used xev to find our which "logic buttons" is generated by each of the >> mouse's "physical buttons". Then I used xmodmap to change the logical >> buttons (this is easy with xmodmap), but probable that was not necessary. > > Oh, I mean what did you put into xmodmap to change mouse buttons? I > thought it only deals with keys. # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 10 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 11 12" This goes in a shell script run at login. It swaps buttons 10 and 2. >> [...] >>>> How do I tell emacs to do something (say end-of-buffer) when button 13 >>>> is pressed? >>> >>> Does Emacs receive the event? You can test with (describe-key). I >>> could probably use something like this: >>> >>> (global-set-key (kbd "") 'end-of-buffer) >> >> Bingo! (It worked better with just mouse-1 not down-mouse-1) >> >>> That might work if Emacs gets . If it doesn't know that >>> many buttons and you're not running out of button numbers, perhaps you >>> can re-map the buttons with xinput so they have lower button mumbers >>> Emacs can understand. >> >> That remapping is what I use xmodmap for (see above). But it is >> necessary emacs is delighted with >> >> (global-set-key (kbd "") 'beginning-of-buffer) >> >> Now I have to decide what to do with all the logitech physical buttons! > > Cool, now you get to make the really difficult decisions ;) Agreed. allan