Re: Keybinding for finding definition by mouse

[Helmut Eller]

On Tue, Jul 10 2018, Yuri Khan wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:50 AM Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Interesting choice.  Is that "history back" or "mouse-8" really a mouse
>> button?
>
> Yes. A common mouse design has a left and right button (1 and 3
> respectively; can be reversed for left-handed users), a scroll wheel
> (button 2 when clicked; 4 and 5 when turned up and down; on some
> models, it can also be tilted left and right for horizontal scrolling,
> X11 calls this buttons 6 and 7), and one or two thumb buttons (one for
> going back in browser history, another forward; these are numbered 8
> and 9).

Funny, I didn't even know that my mouse had buttons 6 and 7.  No
button-8 and button-9, though.  So, I could use button-7 for
xref-find-definitions-at-mouse and button-6 for xref-pop-marker-stack.
I kinda like that.

Helmut