From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 10:07:46 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (MS-DOS Input): Document msdos-set-mouse-buttons. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~2541 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b5867e25b2633990b96e7cec4c7281159db09d7d;p=emacs.git (MS-DOS Input): Document msdos-set-mouse-buttons. --- diff --git a/man/msdog.texi b/man/msdog.texi index e5eba8a9576..c793d8bc481 100644 --- a/man/msdog.texi +++ b/man/msdog.texi @@ -93,7 +93,27 @@ The mouse commands work as documented, including those that use menus and the menu bar (@pxref{Menu Bar}). Scroll bars don't work in MS-DOS Emacs. PC mice usually have only two buttons; these act as @kbd{Mouse-1} and @kbd{Mouse-2}, but if you press both of them -together, that has the effect of @kbd{Mouse-3}. +together, that has the effect of @kbd{Mouse-3}. If the mouse does have +3 buttons, Emacs detects that at startup, and all the 3 buttons function +normally, as on X. + +@cindex mouse, set number of buttons +@findex msdos-set-mouse-buttons + Some versions of mouse drivers don't report the number of mouse +buttons correctly. For example, mice with a wheel report that they have +3 buttons, but only 2 of them are passed to Emacs; the clicks on the +wheel, which serves as the middle button, are not passed. In these +cases, you can use the @kbd{M-x msdos-set-mouse-buttons} command to set +the notion of number of buttons used by Emacs. This command prompts for +the number of buttons, and forces Emacs to behave as if your mouse had +that number of buttons. You could make such a setting permanent by +adding this fragment to your @file{_emacs} init file: + +@example + ;; Force Emacs to behave as if the mouse had + ;; only 2 buttons + (msdos-set-mouse-buttons 2) +@end example @cindex Windows clipboard support Emacs built for MS-DOS supports clipboard operations when it runs on