GNU bug report logs - #7641
use more familiar left-mouse... names

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:37:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 7641-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7641: use more familiar left-mouse... names
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:00:37 +0200

> From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:43:03 +0800
> Cc: 
> 
> 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'm closing the bug report.
This bug report was last modified 14 years and 149 days ago.

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