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I've tried to use Acme as well and the mouse chords were very difficult to use. I guess it needs an old-school three button mouse (gamer mouses with side buttons didn't help).

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If you use Acme from plan9port, you can use Ctrl/Alt (on PCs) resp. Command/Option (on Macs) to simulate chording. That's what I use when I'm on a laptop without my external mouse anyway. At some point, you get very very used to it and start attempting to use the mouse chords in other text entry boxes (such as the browser).

My solution to _that_ is to just write text in Acme always and copy/paste it into the destination when I'm done :)

That might actually work for me. Will give it a try.

9front’s got a couple of recommendations: http://fqa.9front.org/fqa3.html#3.2.0.1

But there aren’t many mice like these. Personally I picked up the N700 and it’s a fine enough mouse but I wouldn’t use it with any other system except some form of Plan 9 with Acme. Not my favorite.

I've got a Logitech G403. It's got a little DPI switch button behind the wheel, which you can reprogram to act as the middle mouse button: https://www.logitechg.com/en-gb/products/gaming-mice/g403-he...

Your preferred settings can be saved to the mouse's onboard memory, so you only have to install the programming crapware on one system.

There are some forks (or reimplementations) of acme that have more keybindings, allowing you to avoid mouse chording. Here are a couple that I like:

https://github.com/karahobny/acme2k

https://github.com/aarzilli/yacco

HTH

While a three button mouse is certainly the best, there are some mice (like Logitech G305), where the scroll button can be easily triggered by pressuring it from the side, so one finger can operate both left and middle buttons pretty much independently.

If the G305 is anything like other Logitech mice, pushing sideways on the scroll wheel will scroll horizontally.

Maybe the ones of the office variety? This particular mouse has only one switch under the wheel, which can be pushed downwards or to the right.

You can also just reprogram the left/right wheel buttons. I personally like the g502/g604. Also I prefer their gaming mice to their office mice, because the gaming mice support on board memory storage rather than needing software to remap the buttons.

In my brief acme foray, I somehow bound a keyboard press to middle click? Dont quite remember the details

I tried Acme a while ago but gave up. I remember using a MacOS app that simulated middle click.

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