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Emacs was designed with the mouse in mind, you can get pretty far just using the toolbar and menu items like you normally would. My understanding is that Emacs
by anschwa 8y ago
Emacs was designed with the mouse in mind, you can get pretty far just using the toolbar and menu items like you normally would. My understanding is that Emacs users don't typically work in a shell, they use the GUI application.
- coldacid 8y agoSource on that? While Emacs has pretty good mouse support these days, that wasn't always the case. I'd be surprised if pre-19 versions were mouseable at all.
- cup-of-tea 8y agoI actually knew several university professors that used emacs with the mouse. It made me cringe to see it, but they did.
- coldacid 8y agoAnyone not using a space-cadet or Symbolics keyboard could have remapped the mouse buttons to Ctrl and Meta to avoid Emacs pinky, but I still find it hard to believe that GNUmacs prior to the rise of Lucid/XEmacs had any real mouse support at all.