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: Unclear in etc/NEWS Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 14:36:40 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115674823 17759 80.91.229.2 (9 May 2005 21:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 21:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 23:40:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVFyf-0002C0-QF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 23:39:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVG74-00018q-P4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DVG2z-0008NQ-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:44:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DVG2l-0008Id-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:44:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVG2j-0008Ei-Jb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.230] (helo=agminet03.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DVG1l-0005PW-0n; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet03.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agminet03.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j49Lahrx008009; Mon, 9 May 2005 16:36:43 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.49]) by agminet03.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j49LagMc007986; Mon, 9 May 2005 16:36:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id j49Lafr5006252; Mon, 9 May 2005 15:36:41 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with SMTP id j49LafQ7006247 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 9 May 2005 15:36:41 -0600 Original-To: , 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 V6.00.2800.1441 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:36918 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36918 I saw this text in etc/NEWS --- *** Unexpected yanking of text due to accidental clicking on the mouse wheel button (typically mouse-2) during wheel scrolling is now avoided. This behavior can be customized via the mouse-wheel-click-event and mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables. and I don't understand it. It says that a certain problem won't happen, but it fails to say what Emacs actually *does*. Would someone who understands this please clarify it? I may be wrong, but I believe this means that previously you might accidentally press the wheel while rotating it, that was interpreted as a mouse-2 click, and that caused a spurious yank. Many mouse wheels also function as mouse-2, by pressing them. It is all too easy to accidentally press the wheel while you rotate it. This fix presumably ignores mouse-2 clicks interspersed with wheel rotations.