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From: clubmac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Australia's Largest Mac Users Group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: The Mouse -- What is its History?
Message-ID: <2385@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: 9 Oct 90 02:00:42 GMT
References: <90274.094731ELE@psuvm.psu.edu> <26801@mimsy.umd.edu> <10592@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: RUNX Unix Timeshare.  Sydney, Australia.
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In article <10592@goofy.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
>AND A FOOTNOTE TO THE ANECDOTE:  Later, the people who were designing the 
>Macintosh user interface decreed that there would be a double-click, but 
>no triple-click, because "a triple-click is just too much."  Application 
>developers, however, immediately began implementing triple-click functions 
>in their own code.  After a while Apple itself implemented a triple-click 
>function in the MPW shell.  Way back in those early 60's, Engelbart did a 
>lot of research to come up with the three-button configuration, and it 
>looks to me like he was right all along.

And Vantage offers quad- and quint-clicking, as well as triple-clicking. Quad
performs select paragraph, and quint performs select all.

>David Casseres


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