Re: Logitech MX310 mouse: Dead extra button?
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:21:40PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:15:32PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> > The wheel works fine. The additional button on the right side appears
> > to behave identically to the right mouse button. The additional button
> > on the left appears to behave like clicking the wheel button (i.e., the
> > middle button) in Mozilla and appears to have bizarre, unpredictable
> > effects in gnome-terminal (if I press it while in "less" then "nano"
> > gets started and some text gets pasted in). The small button behind the
> > wheel does nothing.
>
> Clicking the wheel button has the same bizarre nano-starting behavior in
> less. Apparently less is interpreting whatever is on the clipboard as
> commands to do that.
Surely this is just because the middle button means "paste" in X, and
some characters early on in whatever you're pasting happen to be the
ones that cause less to spawn $EDITOR? 'v' would do that, for instance.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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