From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why mouse-1/2/3 ? Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:47:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200427104054.GF30150@tuxteam.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="46536"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 28 04:48:35 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jTGIU-000C0R-Ny for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 04:48:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40010 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTGIT-00009a-Ni for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:48:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTGHd-0006vg-75 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTGHc-0002os-Ui; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:47:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jTGHb-0006NS-VA; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:47:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Ulrich Mueller on Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:32:00 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247982 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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 Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)