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by Hoff 6069 days ago
When you're writing documentation or designing UIs, please remember that the right and left references for the mouse buttons are entirely ambiguous.

Most mice have been configurably-ambidextrous for a decade or more, after all.

The X Windows folks got this one right very early on with their configurability and their use of MB1, MB2, MB3 notation for the mouse buttons.