From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 7641@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#7641: use more familiar names for mouse events
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:26:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinAxXGoyQMFoSo4jh_k7wAQNu9wPShYzmjzDa2u@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv62ufnqym.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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
--
Dani Moncayo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-27 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-14 23:43 bug#7641: use more familiar left-mouse... names jidanni
2010-12-15 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-27 12:51 ` bug#7641: use more familiar names for mouse events Dani Moncayo
2010-12-27 15:24 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-12-27 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-27 17:26 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
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