From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Patch: Info-mode bindings for forward and back mouse buttons Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:41:39 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87fy7zhdug.fsf@tower.fukt.bsnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174484597 18401 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2007 13:43:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:43:17 +0000 (UTC) To: "Teddy Hogeborn" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 21 14:43:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HU15g-00008N-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:43:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HU17M-0004mz-4R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:44:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HU17I-0004mh-Jl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:44:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HU17G-0004mV-LV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:44:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HU17G-0004mS-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:44:38 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HU15Z-0005kx-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:42:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l2LDgZYx001084; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:42:35 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l2LDgY5g003821; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:42:35 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-64-36.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2550317391174484508; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:41:48 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <87fy7zhdug.fsf@tower.fukt.bsnet.se> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68229 Archived-At: > When using a common type of mouse with two normal buttons, a scroll > wheel, and two side thumb buttons for "forward" and "back", the last > two buttons are not bound in Info-mode. Patch below. > > (As the buttons are not currently bound to anything, I assume that it > is not crucial to make absolutely sure that mouse-6 and mouse-7 have > no other meaning on some other type of mouse.) > > Someone might argue that this should instead be part of mwheel.el, and > I have no opinion on that, as long as the buttons work by default. I suggested this long ago (but with mouse-4 and mouse-5), and I use it in my own customizations. The suggestion was not adopted. The decision here was that there is too large a variety of mice to try to do this successfully.