wheel-mouse and xemacs

John (EBo) David plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sat, 22 Sep 2001 22:43:35 -0700


"David A. Sinck" wrote:
> 
> \_ SMTP quoth John (EBo) David on 9/19/2001 05:54 as having spake thusly:
> \_
> \_
> \_ On my 6 foot pile of things called a "to-do" List I've wanted to get my
> \_ wheel mouse working in emacs...
> \_
> \_ I've read the blurb on http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/,
> \_ modified my ~/.emacs, but have been unable to get it to work...  Have
> \_ anyone else gotten a wheel mouse to work with xemacs?  Suggestions?
> \_
> \_   I'm runing SuSE 7.1 and have been unable to find a newer RPM to
> \_ upgrade...
> 
> Bah.  I had emacs scrolling on wheel mouse three companies ago, so
> that'd be like whole years and stuff.  :-)
> 
> Diagnosis: from the commandline fire up 'xev', then move the mouse
> over it and ignore the flood of events.  *Pick the mouse up* (so as to
> not get spurious reports from the ball) and use just the wheel.  If
> you don't get events, then it's your X-server not paying attention to
> mouse-4 and mouse-5.  See XF86Config, particulary the mouse section
> where it states 'ZAxisMapping 4 5' and 'Buttons 5'.
> 
> If you are getting X events, then either XEmacs hasn't read your
> config properly or it just doesn't like you.  :-)

Thanks...  

I checked it and it worked and this works for xemacs, but not for
regular emacs in X.  The plain ol' vanela emacs does not have the fancy
icons and all, but does have the pull down menues.  the wheel-mouse is
not working in the regular emacs.  Whenever I spin the wheel I hear a
"beep" signifying that emacs is actually getting the mouse event signal
(or representitive character stream) but does not know how to process
it.  So, has anyone gotten the wheel to work using emacs instead of
xemacs?

  EBo --