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- From: lystad@m2.dseg.ti.com (Garr Lystad)
- Subject: Re: Mouse enhancements for buffer-menu mode
- Organization: TI DSEG, Spring Creek, Plano, Tx.
- In-Reply-To: jwz@lucid.COM's message of 27 Aug 92 20:30:17 GMT
- References: <LYSTAD.92Aug27090446@m2.dseg.ti.com> <9208272030.AA06576@thalidomide.lucid>
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- Reply-To: Garr Lystad <lystad@m2.dseg.ti.com>
- Sender: lystad@m2.dseg.ti.com (Garr Lystad)
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:49:44 GMT
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- I'm all for consistency, and I sure don't like surprises when I use an
- editor. Your guidelines are consistent with the unmodified button use
- in Zmacs too, which is good for us Lisp programmers.
-
- Still, I think there are some other considerations. There probably
- isn't more than one, or at most two, menus of any use in a given mode.
- If we do get into a situation with a lot of menus it's probably best
- to arrange them in a hierarchy with the root on button3. So we have a
- menu on button 3. If there are quite a few useful commands to be put
- on the mouse I'd like to be able to put some of them on
- Control-button3 or shift-button3, etc. I really believe there are too
- many useful mouse commands that can be created to reserve button 3
- with modifers for menus. (Of course I put a command on an unmodified
- button3. I thought of that as a convenience, particularly since I
- hadn't created a menu. But on reflection, that is probably a mistake.)
-
- Also there are some NATURAL assignments to the mouse that don't fit
- the guidelines, such as moused-line-to-top, moused-line-to-middle, and
- moused-line-to-bottom on modified buttons 1, 2, and 3 respectively.
-
- To help remove confusion even further, I would suggest a convention
- that all commands that are put on the mouse should have the word mouse
- in them. That way if someone does apropos on the word mouse he will
- find the commands he has available. Of course apropos should
- be fixed to show the mouse bindings as it does with regular key
- bindings.
-
- Well, that's my opinion anyway, for what its worth. And in spite of
- my opinion on modified mouse buttons, I really do thank Jamie for
- trying to put a little order in our multiple, uncoordinated efforts.
-
- -- Garr
-