laptop and mice

[Gary Capell gary@staff.cs.su.oz.au]

In message <9508301441.AA05266@daikon.tuc.noao.edu.noao>,
Richard Wolff writes:

>I'm considering buying a laptop and would like, of course, to consider
>running plan 9 on it.  But all the machines have one button (apple) or

Forget apple and plan 9 unless you want to do a lot of work.

>two button (windoz) mice built in.  Are there any machines with three
>button mice?  (and supported by plan 9 ?)  Probably not, so the real
>question is what are folks doing to provide the extra mouse button?  I
>know that one could buy an external mouse and carry that around as
>well, but that's not very elegant given that most everything else one might
>want is now built it to the basic machine.

A trackball is not everything else _I_ would want.  In other words
you may end up carrying around a decent mouse (if you can find
such a beastie) anyway.

>Using the alt, or better, the new
>windows key, as either a third mouse button or a button modifier seems
>better, but...has anyone done this?  Other ideas?

I think Plan 9 with a Microsoft mouse uses shift with right-button to
give middle button.  Not fun for playing with acme.