From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7641: use more familiar names for mouse events Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:26:55 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87zks7vs3c.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293472414 14446 80.91.229.12 (27 Dec 2010 17:53:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:53:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7641@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 27 18:53:29 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXHGD-00026F-8J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:53:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PXHGC-0002Qr-Na for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mzObFQ4+JdHduQtK++zw/6rTpci3bH55GESHqZTi9jjx0rX65AGKZ3ijpQ98wQIufC UhtYyjxBvOcUqoXnXQ+sZLSUCcrsHF1p9KLR1yZyptqIvIOHyR92xuGnzth/MkHIP60H fWT9AIKEr5ae7i3jzdiHzDOTKf41Pr7StUlbE= Original-Received: by 10.90.2.26 with SMTP id 26mr3505284agb.148.1293470815376; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:26:55 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.90.227.16 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:26:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:21:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:42875 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 17:05, Stefan Monnier wr= ote: >>>> 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). =A0If 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. =A0Depending 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 --=20 Dani Moncayo