home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!bonnie.concordia.ca!hobbit.ireq.hydro.qc.ca!NetNews.ireq.hydro.qc.ca!gamin
- From: gamin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Boyer)
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
- Subject: Re: Mouse enhancements for buffer-menu mode
- Message-ID: <GAMIN.92Sep1081541@amadeus.ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 12:15:41 GMT
- References: <LYSTAD.92Aug27090446@m2.dseg.ti.com> <9208272030.AA06576@thalidomide.lucid>
- Sender: news@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Netnews Admin)
- Organization: Le laboratoire de robotique de l'Institut de recherche
- d'Hydro-Quebec
- Lines: 38
- In-Reply-To: jwz@lucid.COM's message of 27 Aug 92 20:30:17 GMT
-
- >>>>> Jamie Zawinski writes:
-
- >We have been trying to stay consistent with the following guidelines:
-
- >button1 moves point
- >button2 "selects" or "opens"
- >button3 pops up a menu of all your choices
-
- >It would be good if others could try to be consistent with this as well,
-
- What about those who do not use only emacs, but other programs which
- ALL follow some other convention? (OpenLook, for instance). Lemacs
- would be consistent with itself, which is more than some other
- programs can say, but it wouldn't be consistent with the rest of the
- world.
-
- I think the idea of labelling buttons by function rather than by
- number is a much better one. In imouse (for epoch), for example, the
- buttons are labelled "SELECT", "MODIFY", and "PASTE" and they (mostly)
- retain those meanings with any modifier key. Thus, I'd rather see the
- following guidelines:
-
- button "MOVE" moves point or (for example) scrolls the window
- button "SELECT" selects the buffer or (for example) sets mark
- button "MENU" pops up a menu
-
- "MOVE" is by default assigned to button1
- "SELECT" is assigned to button2 under OpenWindows and button3 under twm
- "MENU" is assigned to button3 under OpenWindows and ??? under twm
-
- Well, I don't know how to satisfy the last equation in lemacs (I did
- in imouse), but ideas are welcome.
-
- --
- Martin Boyer mboyer@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca
- Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec mboyer@ireq-robot.uucp
- Varennes, QC, Canada J3X 1S1
- +1 514 652-8412
-