From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rvmolen@bambecksystems.com (Richard V. Molen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting mouse-wheel-follow-mouse to work on Windows Date: 12 Nov 2002 15:18:03 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037144240 19284 80.91.224.249 (12 Nov 2002 23:37:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:37:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Bkao-00050I-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:37:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18BkYs-0002b0-00; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:35:14 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.iccinternet.com!news.iccinternet.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:17:50 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.0.189.26 Original-X-Trace: sv3-lbHkI1pbtJu3670JxdK6Bb5tXh9Evgas44iafqE3zdmtZcCwuKCcq1lsESGCFSntnISxGNP3dQ/T1WP!Urj9uIY37pQeeWtjGfmnbrfV7SAzG0MwdHF0MQZ2SvxRXnbRTE/FFFUFH8FZeLbEjXE27PiCEbwm Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@iccinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@iccinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106980 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3534 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3534 Oliver Scholz writes: > Dave Duxbury 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 Warning!! Signature under construction, safety glasses required.