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(MS-DOS Input): Document msdos-set-mouse-buttons.

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@ -93,7 +93,27 @@ The mouse commands work as documented, including those that use menus
and the menu bar (@pxref{Menu Bar}). Scroll bars don't work in
MS-DOS Emacs. PC mice usually have only two buttons; these act as
@kbd{Mouse-1} and @kbd{Mouse-2}, but if you press both of them
together, that has the effect of @kbd{Mouse-3}.
together, that has the effect of @kbd{Mouse-3}. If the mouse does have
3 buttons, Emacs detects that at startup, and all the 3 buttons function
normally, as on X.
@cindex mouse, set number of buttons
@findex msdos-set-mouse-buttons
Some versions of mouse drivers don't report the number of mouse
buttons correctly. For example, mice with a wheel report that they have
3 buttons, but only 2 of them are passed to Emacs; the clicks on the
wheel, which serves as the middle button, are not passed. In these
cases, you can use the @kbd{M-x msdos-set-mouse-buttons} command to set
the notion of number of buttons used by Emacs. This command prompts for
the number of buttons, and forces Emacs to behave as if your mouse had
that number of buttons. You could make such a setting permanent by
adding this fragment to your @file{_emacs} init file:
@example
;; Force Emacs to behave as if the mouse had
;; only 2 buttons
(msdos-set-mouse-buttons 2)
@end example
@cindex Windows clipboard support
Emacs built for MS-DOS supports clipboard operations when it runs on