Autoload failed to define function mwheel-install

Autoload failed to define function mwheel-install

[Bob Marcum]

I received this message upon starting up emacs after upgrading from RedHat 7.1 to
Fedora Core 3, now using emacs 21.3.  I struggled for a while trying to determine
a solution.  A search using google for this error message found one person's
experience which gave some guidance.

I solved this problem by including the line (load
"usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/mwheel.elc") as the first line in my .emacs startup
file.

I know this is surely not the _right_ way to solve this problem.  This following
line should have solved the problem, but it doesn't.
( autoload 'mwheel-install "mwheel" "Enable mouse wheel support" t)
(mwheel-install)

I would have thought emacs would look in /usr/share/emacs/21.3 and all of its
directories to find mwheel.elc and resolve the reference to mwheel in the
autoload statement, but it did not.

Is this a bug or just some configuration error I have?

I post this for others who may encounter this error message.

Re: Autoload failed to define function mwheel-install

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 16.12.2004 um 15:35 schrieb Bob Marcum:

> ( autoload 'mwheel-install "mwheel" "Enable mouse wheel support" t)
> (mwheel-install)

Shouldn't this be handled by loaddefs.el and ldefs-boot.el? And you 
just use your mouse wheel ...

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Re: Autoload failed to define function mwheel-install

[Bob Marcum]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 16.12.2004 um 15:35 schrieb Bob Marcum:
>
> > ( autoload 'mwheel-install "mwheel" "Enable mouse wheel support" t)
> > (mwheel-install)
>
> Shouldn't this be handled by loaddefs.el and ldefs-boot.el? And you
> just use your mouse wheel ...
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>

Frankly, Pete, ya got me.  I haven't a clue.  Are you suggesting a
specific solution?
 If you are, please flush it out.  Show me how.

Re: Autoload failed to define function mwheel-install

[Kai Grossjohann]

Bob Marcum <bmarcum@Houston.rr.com> writes:

> I received this message upon starting up emacs after upgrading from
> RedHat 7.1 to Fedora Core 3, now using emacs 21.3.  I struggled for
> a while trying to determine a solution.  A search using google for
> this error message found one person's experience which gave some
> guidance.

What happens if you do nothing at all to support the mouse wheel?  I
just started Emacs without customizations, and the mouse wheel worked
out of the box.  (But this was CVS Emacs, not 21.3.)

Try "emacs -q -no-site-file" and then open a file and turn the mouse
wheel to see what happens.

Kai

Re: Autoload failed to define function mwheel-install

[Kevin Rodgers]

Bob Marcum wrote:
> I received this message upon starting up emacs after upgrading from RedHat 7.1 to
> Fedora Core 3, now using emacs 21.3.  I struggled for a while trying to determine
> a solution.  A search using google for this error message found one person's
> experience which gave some guidance.
> 
> I solved this problem by including the line (load
> "usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/mwheel.elc") as the first line in my .emacs startup
> file.
> 
> I know this is surely not the _right_ way to solve this problem.  This following
> line should have solved the problem, but it doesn't.
> ( autoload 'mwheel-install "mwheel" "Enable mouse wheel support" t)
> (mwheel-install)
> 
> I would have thought emacs would look in /usr/share/emacs/21.3 and all of its
> directories to find mwheel.elc and resolve the reference to mwheel in the
> autoload statement, but it did not.
> 
> Is this a bug or just some configuration error I have?

I suspect you've got multiple, incompatible versions of mwheel in your
load-path.  What does `M-x list-load-path-shadows' show?

BTW, here's all I have in my .emacs to enable the mouse wheel in Emacs 
21.3 (i386-pc-solaris2.8, X toolkit):

(mouse-wheel-mode 1)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers