bug#7641: use more familiar names for mouse events

[Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 17:05, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>> I think the general public are more familiar with right-mouse
>>>> center-mouse left-mouse than these names.
>>> Except that in Emacs, they could be remapped (e.g., mouse-3 could be a
>>> simultaneous click on both left and right buttons).  If we use left,
>>> right, and center, the manual could be simply wrong for some
>>> configurations.
>> I don't understand this quite well.
>
> Simple: mouse-3 is the button which X-windows defines as the button
> number 3.  Depending on your configuration and on the kind of input
> device you're using, it may be the right mouse button or it could be
> ... anything else.
>
> So it's OK for the manual to say that mouse-1 is usually the left mouse
> button, but it would be wrong for Emacs and its manual to always use
> mouse-left in place of mouse-1.
>
I didn't know it. Thanks


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Dani Moncayo