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Documented Mouse wheel problems on MS-Windows.

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Jason Rumney 2003-06-14 11:26:08 +00:00
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@ -952,6 +952,23 @@ particular, this has been reported when trying to compile a Java
program in JDEE when javac.exe is installed, but not on the system
PATH.
* Pressing the mouse button on MS-Windows does not give a mouse-2 event.
This is usually a problem with the mouse driver. Because most Windows
programs do not do anything useful with the middle mouse button, many
mouse drivers allow you to define the wheel press to do something
different. Some drivers do not even have the option to generate a
middle button press. In such cases, setting the wheel press to
"scroll" sometimes works if you press the button twice. Trying a
generic mouse driver might help.
* Scrolling the mouse wheel on MS-Windows always scrolls the top window.
This is another common problem with mouse drivers. Instead of
generating scroll events, some mouse drivers try to fake scroll bar
movement. But they are not intelligent enough to handle multiple
scroll bars within a frame. Trying a generic mouse driver might help.
* Mail sent through Microsoft Exchange in some encodings appears to be
mangled and is not seen correctly in Rmail or Gnus. We don't know
exactly what happens, but it isn't an Emacs problem in cases we've