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Right click? Hulloh?
Why not left-middle-click-double-stomp-head-bang on the keyboard? "Right click" is meaningless. If one opts for bells-and-whistles mice, trackpads, or trackballs, a given click will behave only according to its mapping. Not to say that the many options for input devices and their customizability isn't a good thing. They're wonderful. But, please understand that, outside of the world of Willy Loman-esque Windows lemmings. 'Right click' has about as much meaning as the Nike swoosh would have had to Shakespeare (who, as I understand it, was never much one for television).
Right click? Hulloh?
Actually, Macs are the odd-man-out here. Every other mouse-equipped system I've used has at least two mouse buttons. Of course, Macs are often the oddball (like with their multi-fork files and heavy reliance on non-portable filesystem metadata).
Regardless, on every system (including Macs with multi-button mouses) the right mouse button is the standard for contextual menus. I think anyone who isn't being willfully oblivious will understand that he meant "bring up the contextual menu in the normal way". -Esme
Contextual menu activation
I believe that it's commen knowledge that you access the contextual menu by either right-clicking or control-clicking as the results are the same...
There is no need to waste bandwidth debating whether Mac's are "normal" or "different" due to the number of mouse buttons - if one button is not enough you just plug in an X-buttoned mouse and use it!!!
Contextual menu activation
Sorry for any confusion I may have caused (which I seriously doubt occurred). As fun as it is to be contrarian :oP, right-click means "bring up a contextual menu" on the windows, unix, and macs I use on a regular basis, and is generally true across multiple operating system versions/configurations for each, which is why I used that term. It's the most common, shortest way to say it. |
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