From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why mouse-1/2/3 ? Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:32:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20200427104054.GF30150@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="124921"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.90 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 27 14:33:18 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 1jT2wn-000WMN-Gn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:33:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43302 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT2wm-0000jk-H3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT2vp-0007se-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:32:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT2vo-0006uw-KY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:52684) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jT2vn-0006t5-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:32:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200427104054.GF30150@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:40:54 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=140.211.166.183; envelope-from=ulm@gentoo.org; helo=smtp.gentoo.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/27 08:32:05 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Received-From: 140.211.166.183 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:247918 Archived-At: >>>>> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:37:24AM +0000, ndame wrote: >> > What is the "established terminology"? >> >> Left button, middle button, right button. I know no mainstream tool >> which calls the left button mouse-1, etc > Then your world is too small :-) 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. :-) > X has always called those buttons 1, 2, 3. And for good reasons, > as this thread has shown... SCNR, Ulrich [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_spatial_cognition