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AIUI the menu appears under the mouse when you right (or middle?) click. > The NEXTSTEP operating system further developed the idea, incorporating a feature wh
by abrowne 9y ago
AIUI the menu appears under the mouse when you right (or middle?) click.
> The NEXTSTEP operating system further developed the idea, incorporating a feature whereby the right or middle mouse button brought the main menu (which was vertical and automatically changed depending on context) to the location of the mouse, thereby eliminating the need to move the mouse pointer all the way across the large (for the time) NextStep screen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_menu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_menu
- sedachv 9y agoI just edited that Wikipedia article. Interlisp on Xerox Daybreaks (and maybe Viewpoint; I've only used Interlisp) had left/middle-click context menus under cursor in the mid-1980s, so I imagine it was present on the earlier D* Xerox systems and maybe the Star. Definitely predates Nextstep though.
- tambourine_man 9y agoAh, that makes sense, didn’t know it, thanks. Always saw people moving the menus around as the big differentiating factor. Never thought it would first pop under the cursor.