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From: Brad Miller <miller@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU>

    Date: 23 Nov 88 01:52:32 GMT
    From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)

    Though I think 2 or 3 buttons are far too many, if a manufacturer
    insists on having more than one button on a mouse, I think it very
    important that they not be distinguished only by left/right (shame on
    you nExt!), new Microsoft mice are better than the old in this
    respect.  Far too many normal people get left and right confused--just
    imagine how dislexics feel.

I've been using a 3 button mouse on my Symbolics for years. No-one at our
site has ever complained about it -- they only complained about the old
Xerox two button mouse as not being enough buttons.

5 buttons anyone? (thumb can be a shift key)..

One thing the Symbolics/Explorer lets you do is use shifty keys with the
mouse, so shift-left is equivalent to double-click left. You can then
disable double click entirely and just use shift. Of course, you still have
control, meta, super, hyper, and symbol to put additional combinations on
the mouse.

A pity when apple redesigned their keyboard they a) didn't include more
shift keys and b) decided on such a lousy key arrangement. Control is used
almost as often as shift in a real editor (that is, EMACS or derivatives)
and should be as easy to hit as shift is. All shift keys should be
duplicated on both sides of the spacebar for touch typing as well...

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Brad Miller		U. Rochester Comp Sci Dept.
miller@cs.rochester.edu {...allegra!rochester!miller}