Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:41:23 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/syscons scmouse.c src/sys/i386/conf Message-ID: <19991115124123.B1282@scorpion.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991115190600.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <199911150828.KAA32612@gratis.grondar.za> <XFMail.991115190600.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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hi,
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:06:00PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > In order to use an ioctl, you need to write nasty looking code, and in
> > cases like this, that ends up being horrors like rndcontrol(8). One
> > of the nice things about UNIX is its extremely general-purpose tools,
> > and these one-off ioctl-drivers break that.
>
> Why not make vidcontrol deal with it? It already handles console stuff.
We already have following chunk in moused(8):
-3 Emulate the third (middle) button for 2-button mice. It is emu-
lated by pressing the left and right physical buttons simultane-
ously.
Isn't this code that you want to have by adding SC_TWOBUTTON_MOUSE ?
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