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Re: mwheel scroll horizontally
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: mwheel scroll horizontally |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:39:10 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> 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).