getting mouse-wheel-follow-mouse to work on Windows

getting mouse-wheel-follow-mouse to work on Windows

[Dave Duxbury]

I posted this over at comp.emacs a few days ago, and thought I'd ask again here
in case there's anyone that can help. I'd like to have the mouse scroll wheel
affect the window it is over, which is not necessarily the currently selected
window.

Is setting (mouse-wheel-follow-mouse t) supposed to work for NT Emacs or is it
a UNIX only thing? I can't seem to get it to work on WinXP (Emacs 21.2.1),
scrolling via the mouse wheel always affects the selected emacs window, not the
one below the mouse pointer.

Any ideas?

-- Dave

Re: getting mouse-wheel-follow-mouse to work on Windows

[Oliver Scholz]

Dave Duxbury <dave@davidduxbury.com> writes:
[...]
> Is setting (mouse-wheel-follow-mouse t) supposed to work for NT
> Emacs or is it a UNIX only thing? 
> I can't seem to get it to work on WinXP (Emacs 21.2.1), scrolling
> via the mouse wheel always affects the selected emacs window, not
> the one below the mouse pointer.

It works for me. Same Emacs version, same operating system. I have
tested it right now. But I seem to recall that this does not always
work (or was this 21.3.50?), so maybe it is buggy.

    Oliver
-- 
22 Brumaire an 211 de la Révolution
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!

Re: getting mouse-wheel-follow-mouse to work on Windows

[Richard V. Molen]

Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> Dave Duxbury <dave@davidduxbury.com> writes:
> [...]
> > Is setting (mouse-wheel-follow-mouse t) supposed to work for NT
> > Emacs or is it a UNIX only thing? 
> > I can't seem to get it to work on WinXP (Emacs 21.2.1), scrolling
> > via the mouse wheel always affects the selected emacs window, not
> > the one below the mouse pointer.
> 
> It works for me. Same Emacs version, same operating system. I have
> tested it right now. But I seem to recall that this does not always
> work (or was this 21.3.50?), so maybe it is buggy.
> 
>     Oliver
> -- 
> 22 Brumaire an 211 de la Révolution
> Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!

Doesn't work for me either -- tried 'runemacs --debug-init
--no-init-file' then 'M-x mouse-wheel-mode' then C-x C-e on '(setq
mouse-wheel-follow-mouse t)'.  Interestingly, I did need to add
'(mouse-wheel-mode)' to my .emacs in Linux in order to get the mouse
wheel working at all in Linux.

-- 
Richard V. Molen

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Re: getting mouse-wheel-follow-mouse to work on Windows

[Jason Rumney]

Dave Duxbury <dave@davidduxbury.com> writes:

> I posted this over at comp.emacs a few days ago, and thought I'd ask
> again here in case there's anyone that can help. I'd like to have
> the mouse scroll wheel affect the window it is over, which is not
> necessarily the currently selected window.
> 
> Is setting (mouse-wheel-follow-mouse t) supposed to work for NT
> Emacs or is it a UNIX only thing?

In 21.2, the mouse wheel is handled differently on Windows than
other platforms, so mouse-wheel-follow-mouse will have no effect.
This mouse-wheel support has been merged in the CVS HEAD, which will
likely be eventually released as 21.4.

Re: getting mouse-wheel-follow-mouse to work on Windows

[Dave Duxbury]

"Jason Rumney" <jasonr@btinternet.co> writes:
> In 21.2, the mouse wheel is handled differently on Windows than
> other platforms, so mouse-wheel-follow-mouse will have no effect.
> This mouse-wheel support has been merged in the CVS HEAD, which will
> likely be eventually released as 21.4.
>

Ah, thanks for that. I'll try building the latest from CVS.

Cheers,
-- Dave