* Re: unbind the paste functionality of the middle mouse button
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@ 2002-02-18 20:32 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-02-19 21:31 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Kim F. Storm @ 2002-02-18 20:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
"Victor Hannak" <victor.hannak@kodak.com> writes:
> Is there a way to unbind the paste functionality of the middle mouse button
> while retaining the other uses?
>
> The middle button on a wheel mouse is very sensitive making it easy to
> inadvertently paste text while scrolling. I would like to eliminate the
> paste feature but obviously, I would still like to be able to use the middle
> mouse button to select items from dialog boxes and the like.
I submitted a patch prior to 21.1 which introduced a delay after using
the scroll wheel during which a mouse-2 click would be ignored.
It worked very well, but didn't make it into the release (it was
rejected because it didn't add generic mouse-wheel support -- only
solved this specific problem).
Maybe it would be time to look at it again for 21.3.
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2002-02-18 20:32 ` unbind the paste functionality of the middle mouse button Kim F. Storm
@ 2002-02-19 21:31 ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-19 22:56 ` Kim F. Storm
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2002-02-19 21:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: victor.hannak, emacs-devel
It worked very well, but didn't make it into the release (it was
rejected because it didn't add generic mouse-wheel support -- only
solved this specific problem).
I am not sure what that means. What precisely didn't it add? What
more is needed to make it a good thing to install?
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2002-02-19 21:31 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2002-02-19 22:56 ` Kim F. Storm
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From: Kim F. Storm @ 2002-02-19 22:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: victor.hannak, emacs-devel
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> It worked very well, but didn't make it into the release (it was
> rejected because it didn't add generic mouse-wheel support -- only
> solved this specific problem).
>
> I am not sure what that means. What precisely didn't it add? What
> more is needed to make it a good thing to install?
The change I made was pretty low-level and for X only.
Its sole purpose was to avoid stray mouse-2 events during scrolling
with the mouse.
It allowed you to specify what buttons correspond to the "mouse
wheel", e.g. mouse-4 and mouse-5 and what button is associated with
the wheel, e.g. mouse-2. It would then block mouse-2 for 200 ms (or so)
after receiving a mouse-4 or mouse-5 event.
The emacs developers didn't want a fix at this level -- they preferred
adding mouse-wheel support to X (similar to the w32 mouse-wheel support).
Since noone has done that (yet), the original problem persists...
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