Re: right-click menu?

["Lisa Wright" <liwright -at- qwest -dot- net>]

I mouse left-handed to relieve the strain of repetitive stress on my
right hand, and I've been doing it for so long that I just automatically
translate "right-click" to left click. My assumption as a writer has
been, as you said, that anyone who's mousing "corrie fisted" is going to
understand that they need to reverse the buttons, so I use "right-click"
when I'm writing.

It does confuse right-mousing people using my computer when I tell them
to "right-click".

Then again, I may have played too much left-handed Minesweeper when that
was one of the only games on my old 386.

"Rock, Megan" wrote:

> Is anyone out there using neutral terms for instances like this?  If so,
> what terms do you use?  Or do you just assume your readers will figure it
> out?  "If they're smart enough to figure out how to swap mouse buttons, they
> must be smart enough to figure out which button to use for what regardless
> of what the manual says."

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