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- x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from help-lucid-emacs to alt.lucid-emacs.help; Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:16:19 EDT
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:08:26 EDT
- From: weiner@pts.mot.com (Bob Weiner)
- Message-ID: <9208280008.AA03153@pts5.pts.mot.com>
- Subject: Re: Mouse enhancements for buffer-menu mode
- Reply-To: bob_weiner@pts.mot.com
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
- Path: sparky!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!help-lucid-emacs
- Sender: help-lucid-emacs-request@lucid.com
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- Well I hear the sound of dead horses being beaten, but I feel compelled to
- mention that "right button = popup menu" is the standard in Motif, OpenLook,
- NeXTStep, and the Lisp Machine OS.
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- I understand. Maybe that will become the Hyperbole default at some point along
- with easy configurability, which I believe I've already put in.
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- The reason I chose the middle is historic and two-fold.
- We were working on Apollos which had no menus but whose users were very used
- to using the right key to select pathnames and open them, a behavior I wanted
- to leave.
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- Secondly my user testing showed that most people had better control and were
- more comfortable using their middle finger extensively rather than their right.
- That finger then led to the middle button.
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- Bob
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