* Unclear in etc/NEWS
@ 2005-05-09 21:03 Richard Stallman
2005-05-09 21:36 ` Drew Adams
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2005-05-09 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
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?
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2005-05-09 21:03 Unclear in etc/NEWS Richard Stallman
@ 2005-05-09 21:36 ` Drew Adams
2005-05-10 16:25 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Drew Adams @ 2005-05-09 21:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.
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2005-05-09 21:36 ` Drew Adams
@ 2005-05-10 16:25 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-12 2:08 ` Daniel Brockman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2005-05-10 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
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.
Does anyone know if that is what it really does?
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2005-05-10 16:25 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2005-05-12 2:08 ` Daniel Brockman
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From: Daniel Brockman @ 2005-05-12 2:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
>
> Does anyone know if that is what it really does?
I don't have a mouse, but this is what the docstrings say:
mouse-wheel-click-event's value is mouse-2
Event that should be temporarily inhibited after mouse scrolling.
The mouse wheel is typically on the mouse-2 button, so it may easily
happen that text is accidentially yanked into the buffer when
scrolling with the mouse wheel. To prevent that, this variable can be
set to the event sent when clicking on the mouse wheel button.
mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time's value is 0.35
Time in seconds to inhibit clicking on mouse wheel button after scroll.
--
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>
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