RE: Patch: Info-mode bindings for forward and back mouse buttons

[Drew Adams]

> When using a common type of mouse with two normal buttons, a scroll
> wheel, and two side thumb buttons for "forward" and "back", the last
> two buttons are not bound in Info-mode.  Patch below.
>
> (As the buttons are not currently bound to anything, I assume that it
> is not crucial to make absolutely sure that mouse-6 and mouse-7 have
> no other meaning on some other type of mouse.)
>
> Someone might argue that this should instead be part of mwheel.el, and
> I have no opinion on that, as long as the buttons work by default.

I suggested this long ago (but with mouse-4 and mouse-5), and I use it in my
own customizations. The suggestion was not adopted. The decision here was
that there is too large a variety of mice to try to do this successfully.