Re: Why mouse-1/2/3 ?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020,   wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:37:24AM +0000, ndame wrote:
>> > What is the "established terminology"?
>> 
>> Left button, middle button, right button. I know no mainstream tool
>> which calls the left button mouse-1, etc

> Then your world is too small :-)

If Emacs will ever be localized for a language with an absolute
reference frame [1], then it would be "east button" for mouse-1 and
"west button" for mouse-3, when the user is a right-hander looking
south. :-)

> X has always called those buttons 1, 2, 3. And for good reasons,
> as this thread has shown...

SCNR,
Ulrich

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_spatial_cognition