Re: Emacs mouse wheel and other issues

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.03.2009 um 09:29 schrieb galapogos:

> 1. The mouse wheel doesn't work. It apparently gets mapped to C-M- 
> ( and
> C-M-), which emacs doesn't recognize. How do I get it to work so  
> that I can
> scroll up/down my files?

Do you use mwheel(.el[c])?

> 2. There's a huge message window that takes up almost half the  
> editor space,
> saying "Welcome to emacs, blah blah blah". I can resize it down but  
> I'm not
> sure how to remove it. My Mandriva 2008.0/2008.1 emacs  
> installations didn't
> have this problem.

Check the variables inhibit-startup-* and customise what's needed.

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