From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mwheel scroll horizontally
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:39:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbh1cyu9.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5D4331260E2E4FD5A8615DC94FEF8ECA@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:21:56 -0700")
> That's the wrong place for such control, IMO. I mean that it shouldn't be
> hard-coded like that. We should leave S- and C- open for use with the wheel,
> and not hard-code them to representing a scroll amount.
The Commentary in mwheel.el says:
;; I for one would prefer some way of converting the button4/button5
;; events into different event types, like 'mwheel-up' or
;; 'mwheel-down', but I cannot find a way to do this very easily (or
;; portably), so for now I just live with it.
Is it what you mean?
> There is nothing sacred about window scrolling - a mouse wheel can do
> lots more interesting things in Emacs than scroll a window.
Yes, they are not just about scrolling. For instance, in Gimp/Chrome
C-mwheel zooms in/out (like `C-x C-+' `C-x C--' `text-scale-adjust' in Emacs).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-04 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-04 22:50 mwheel scroll horizontally Juri Linkov
2010-10-04 23:21 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-04 23:39 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2010-10-05 0:01 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-05 4:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-04 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2010-10-07 9:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-07 22:05 ` Juri Linkov
2010-10-08 10:58 ` Jason Rumney
2010-10-08 23:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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