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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> 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...