From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: ignore mouse-wheel press during rotation Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:55:49 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138920990 10844 80.91.229.2 (2 Feb 2006 22:56:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:56:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 02 23:56:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4nN5-0006EG-IQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:56:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4nQD-0006pQ-Os for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:59:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4nQ2-0006no-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:59:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4nPy-0006ju-Bv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:59:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4nPy-0006jh-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:59:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1F4nOs-0003gs-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:58:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.50]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k12MtpZp024684 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:55:51 -0600 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k12MtpMk002911 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:55:51 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k12MtosR002903 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:55:50 -0700 Original-To: "Emacs-Devel" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49944 Archived-At: > The problem (annoyance) is that with many (all?) such mice it > is easy to > accidentally press the wheel while trying to rotate it (the > rotation finger > movement ends similarly to a press movement). In Emacs, this > results in a > rotation (wheel) event followed by a mouse-2 event, which is > rarely what you > want. This can be disorienting for a gnubie (e.g. unexpected > pasted text), > and it is anyway annoying for oldbies. This is already fixed (a long time ago) in the mwheel package used with X (at least). Great. I didn't realize that. Perhaps you are on Windoze which IIRC has native mouse wheel support but might not ignore mouse clicks while scrolling... Yes, I am on Windows; I should have made that clear. "So, how about adding the fix to Emacs with native mouse-wheel support (e.g. Windows) also?", he suggested with trepidation.