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From: anneb@zogwarg.etl.army.mil (Anne Brink)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: No, nobody is left-handed (update on mouse silliness)
Message-ID: <626@zogwarg.etl.army.mil>
Date: 16 Apr 91 17:25:49 GMT
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>In the referenced article I wrote:
>>That really depends on a lot of things.  I'm not at all right-moused when
>>it comes to precision.  I really need to use a mouse on the left, but I've
>>discovered that most software doesn't expect me to swap the buttons around.
>>With the buttons swapped, when the software says "click left", I will click the
>>left button, even though it's now the "right" button 90% of the time.

dsr@stl.stc.co.uk (D.S.Riches) then asked:
>Do you mean that the software has changed the 'right' and 'left'?  If
>not then the 'left button` doesn`t become a 'right button' merely by
>moving the pad from the RHS to the LHS of a workstation.
Um, yes and no.
Sorry, bad proofreading.  Mea Culpa.  Let's try that again:

Moving the mouse from right to left sometimes has me clicking with the wrong
finger, despite the fact that I have more control over the mouse. Some software
"helps" me by allowing me to set "left mouse'dness", swapping mouse buttons.  
Although it gives my brain a little less confusion, and allows me to click most
frequently with my stronger finger, noone's software instructions work any 
more, and it ends up causing me more trouble.  So I use my less dominant finger
to click left with, but I get the control I want by having the mouse in my
left hand.  

Make more sense?


>   Dave Riches
>   PSS:    David.S.Riches@stl.stc.co.uk (or dsr@stl.stc.co.uk)

					-Anne
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