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Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name> writes:

> Ian Zimmerman <bayard@newsguy.com> writes:
>
> > man xmodmap(1) for how you can change the meaning of the mouse buttons
> > from the shell.  Then bind a short script doing that to a key in your
> > window manager configuration, and another one to change the mapping
> > back.  Then you'll be able to paste with the right button (for example)
> > as long as you're in that mode.
> 
> This won't help the OP, who (IIRC) indicated a Windows environ.

Indeed. The Windows version of Emacs has w32-swap-mouse-buttons to
cover the most common case of swapping buttons 2 and 3.