Re: Better mouse navigation in Info-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:31:26 +0000
> From: jonas@moller.systems
> 
> 
> Some computer mice have additional buttons off to the side, Emacs
> supports two of these additional buttons as `<mouse-8>` and `<mouse-9>`.
> 
> Conventionally, in web-browsers and similar applications these buttons
> are mapped to history-backwards and history-forwards respectively.
> 
> I suggest implementing this for Info-mode by default, with:
> 
> (define-key Info-mode-map (kbd "<mouse-8>") #'Info-history-back)
> (define-key Info-mode-map (kbd "<mouse-9>") #'Info-history-forward)
> 
> And similarly for other modes that have history navigation.

I don't see any harm in adding this.  Patches welcome.