On Monday, 30 September 2024, at 2:53 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > While I'm writing, another interesting plan9port change is that I made > shift-right-click in acme search backward from the current position. This is > very helpful when you are cycling through many results and go one step too > far. To pick that up, the Plan 9 mouse driver would have to be updated to > treat shift-click as adding 5 to the usual button number. (That is, the > normal buttons are 0 1 2 3 4, and the shifted ones are 5 6 7 8 9.)
If I was building graphical software for Plan 9 (and I'd like to), I'd really want/need the separate state of each of the CTRL, SHIFT and ALT (and any other modifier) keys delivered with the mouse events - perhaps as honorary mouse buttons - i.e. 3 more bits in the bit mask. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1dee2a7aea3f7fa3-M06842df744045582f8f5b528 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
