On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Steve Revilak wrote:

> cruller@unicom.net wrote:
> 
> /> Is there any kind of general consensus about 2-button mice? (Now why the
> /> heck are there so many of those?).
> /
> /Don't like 'em one bit.  You still have to contort on the keyboard to
> /get the third button.  You really want the extra button. my 2cents. 
> 
> Oh great....poseur mice!

It's true though. Two buttons blows. Even the XFree way of simulating
the middle button by pressing both doesn't cut it. That brings to mind
a Jetson's cartoon where George says, "I've been pushing that button
all day, and boy, is my finger tired."

I couldn't find a 3-button mouse, either, so I bought a Kensington
Thinking Mouse, which has 4. If 3 is good, four is better, but the
inner right button doesn't do actually do anything in netbsd. 'xmodmap
-e "pointer = 1 3 2"' makes the inner left button act like the middle
button, which is good enough for me.