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Re: 2- or 3-button trackballs for Mac PowerBook?
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Per Rønne |
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Re: 2- or 3-button trackballs for Mac PowerBook? |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Jan 2003 06:50:47 +0100 |
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Dan Kalikow <DrDan@Kalikow.com> wrote:
> Hi -- newbie to the group, here, first-time-posting via Imdat Solak's
> "Halime" newsreader. I'm using GNU Emacs (powerpc-apple-darwin6.2.2) -
> Andrew Choi's port to OS X - on a Titanium PowerBook G4 1Meg machine.
> The "touch- pad and single-clicker" is OK for most stuff but I'm finding
> the lack of a "real" mouse for emacs kinda restrictive. Looking for
> your thoughts (or pointer to good places where such thoughts are
> collected?) about which USB trackballs are good for xemacs. I know
> that 3-button trackballs exist, and I hear that emacs can deal with
> them smoothly on the Mac. Smallish size of the trackball is kinda
> important -- I don't want too large a wart on the side of my PB while
> editing. Whaddayathink?
Try:
www.kensington.dom
I've got a trackball [Kensington Expert Mouse Pro] with four ordinary
buttons, one wheel and six DirectLaunch buttons. The four buttons are
behaving as click, drag-click, double-click and right-click. In context
where it is relevant, the wheel behaves as middle-click.
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