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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
Cc: 7641@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#7641: use more familiar names for mouse events
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:05:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv62ufnqym.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimtRkJUJw48TrMSwn24Lwci4RcAji5Eyk8X-iXf@mail.gmail.com> (Dani Moncayo's message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:51:40 +0100")

>>> 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.


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-27 16:05 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 [this message]
2010-12-27 17:26     ` Dani Moncayo

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