Antedating of "double click" (verb and noun)

[Joel S. Berson]

I agree mostly with Wilson.  "Double-clicking" in the example
functions as a noun, but it is a verbal noun, implying the existence
of a verb (for which, here, the only known quotations may be later).

Joel

At 3/18/2014 09:20 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > two key depressions in rapid succession ("double clicking").
>
>
>To pick a non-nit, "double clicking" in this definition is no more a verb
>than that which it defined by, "two key depressions in rapid successions,"
>is.
>--
>-Wilson
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