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From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mouse wheel release events?
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:18:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d095a6f4-15d0-cdcd-966c-14e912079547@grinta.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2562x7o.fsf@yahoo.com>

On 30/11/2021 03:28, Po Lu wrote:
> Some mouse wheels generate special events when the user moves his finger
> off the wheel, even if the wheel was not previously clicked.
> 
> These events are used by most applications to start inertial scrolling,
> support for which I would like to add to Emacs.
> 
> I want to add a `wheel-release' event that is sent every time Emacs
> receives such an event from the mouse wheel.  Is that okay?

Which environment gives applications access to this kind of events? I 
think on (modernish) GNU/Linux these would be handled by libinput 
directly, relieving the application from the duty of handling these.

Cheers,
Dan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-30 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87y2562x7o.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2021-11-30  2:28 ` Mouse wheel release events? Po Lu
2021-11-30 15:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01  0:50     ` Po Lu
2021-12-01 13:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 13:31         ` Po Lu
2021-12-01 13:48           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02  2:17             ` Po Lu
2021-11-30 20:18   ` Daniele Nicolodi [this message]
2021-12-01  0:51     ` Po Lu

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