On Sun, 24 May 1998 07:23:25 -0000,
Bob Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com> wrote:
> Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
> >BTW, do you think it would be useful if we could disable the
> >key-mouse-button emulation altogather?  I do that when I build my
> >custome kernel since I use a 3-button mouse.  But the change I make
> >often gets reverted by a sup.  The change is trivial but I haven't
> >been able to come up with a reasonably-descriptive-yet-not-so-long
> >option name for it.  Something like KBDXBUTTONS or maybe
> >NOKBDXBUTTONS.  What do you think?
> 
> If this was done people who run GENERIC (or HWDIRECT) Kernels with Apple 
> mice wouldn't be able to do X without a custom Kernel.  Many of these 
> people don't have the disk space to do a custom Kernel build, so I don't 
> think this is a good idea.  (Unless someone like Steve decides to put 
> together 1-button mice kernels along with GENERIC, HWDIRECT, UVM, etc.)

Bob,

I think you missed my point.  I was suggesting *optionally disabling*
mouse button emulation by keyboard, not the other way (i.e. optionally
enabling it).

Ken