From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ignore mouse-wheel press during rotation Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:21:27 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138917720 30621 80.91.229.2 (2 Feb 2006 22:02:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:02:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 02 23:01:57 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 1F4mWY-0007IS-O5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:01:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4mZg-0005bB-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:05:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4lxZ-000447-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:25:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4lxW-0003yx-B0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:25:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4lxV-0003y6-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:25:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.236] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F4lwP-0004IH-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:24:33 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id A6734A50051; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:22:20 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:09:54 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:49938 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > 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). Perhaps you are on Windoze which IIRC has native mouse wheel support but might not ignore mouse clicks while scrolling...