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#7641
use more familiar left-mouse... names
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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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Message #22 received at 7641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 17:05, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>
I didn't know it. Thanks
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Dani Moncayo
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