Try the middle mouse button popup in Preferences - Mouse - Popup. Edit the popup in Preferences - Commands - Customize. You may place all the commands you desire there, such as this:
No middle mouse button on that consumer mouse Apple ships? Try a multi button model more suitable to design work such as the Logitech Performance Mouse MX. Even more buttons you may assign commands to beyond the middle popup:
Some people are skilled at doing similar things with trackpads, etc. Not me. I’m button man, and Apple doesn’t make a proper button mouse IMO! Think Different is not always a silver bullet.
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