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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why mouse-1/2/3 ?
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:47:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jTGHb-0006NS-VA@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <upnbthzy7@gentoo.org> (message from Ulrich Mueller on Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:32:00 +0200)

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  > If Emacs will ever be localized for a language with an absolute
  > reference frame [1], then it would be "east button" for mouse-1 and
  > "west button" for mouse-3, when the user is a right-hander looking
  > south. :-)

Aside:

I wonder how those people would express directions if walking around on
Boston streets -- or inside the Pentagon.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-28  2:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-27 10:37 Why mouse-1/2/3 ? ndame
2020-04-27 10:40 ` tomas
2020-04-27 12:32   ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-04-28  2:47     ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-04-27 10:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-04-27 10:47   ` ndame
2020-04-27 11:02     ` tomas
2020-04-27 10:53   ` ndame
2020-04-27 11:11 ` Po Lu
2020-04-27 13:29   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-27 13:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-27 13:27   ` ndame
2020-04-27 15:08     ` Dmitry Gutov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-27 11:23 ndame
2020-04-27 11:31 ` tomas
2020-04-27 13:36   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-27 13:39     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-27 14:08     ` tomas
2020-04-27 14:26       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-27 14:50         ` tomas
2020-04-27 16:00     ` Drew Adams
2020-04-27 19:04       ` chad
2020-04-28  2:51         ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-28  3:48           ` Tim Cross
2020-04-27 16:01     ` Drew Adams
2020-04-27 10:50 ndame
2020-04-25 17:45 ndame
2020-04-25 18:19 ` Zach Pearson
2020-04-26  4:09   ` Po Lu
2020-04-27  9:45     ` ndame
2020-04-27  9:53       ` tomas
2020-04-27 11:10       ` Po Lu
2020-04-27 11:12         ` ndame
2020-04-27 11:46           ` Po Lu
2020-04-26  4:08 ` Po Lu
2020-04-26  6:12   ` Tim Cross
2020-04-26 16:41   ` Drew Adams
2020-04-27  9:30     ` Po Lu
2020-04-27  9:40       ` tomas
2020-04-27  9:47         ` Pip Cet
2020-04-27 15:13           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-28  0:40 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2020-04-28 15:27   ` Drew Adams

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