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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,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/syscons scmouse.c src/sys/i386/conf
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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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