GNU bug report logs - #49803
27.2; Mouse wheel on MacOS is reported as mouse-4 and mouse-5, but Emacs mwheel seems to use wheel-up/wheel-down instead

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Didier <didibus <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 49803 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49803: 27.2; Mouse wheel on MacOS is reported as mouse-4 and mouse-5, but Emacs mwheel seems to use wheel-up/wheel-down instead
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 09:18:37 +0300

> From: Didier <didibus <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 19:27:58 -0700
> 
> I'm on a MacBook Pro with macOS Big Sur, and on both the laptop trackpad
> and with my plugged in USB mouse, the wheel or 2-finger up/down on
> trackpad, is reported to Emacs when in terminal as mouse-4 and mouse-5.
> That means that scroll doesn't work in Terminal.app or in iTerm2 on MAC,
> since mouse-4 and mouse-5 are not bound.
> 
> In the GUI Mac it works, because it gets reported as wheel-up and
> wheel-down.
> 
> My thought is maybe here
> https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/mwheel.el#L54
> there should be an additional check for if its running with a
> window-system or not?

I don't think I follow.  The defcustoms there say:

  (defcustom mouse-wheel-down-event
    (if (or (featurep 'w32-win) (featurep 'ns-win))
	'wheel-up
      'mouse-4)
    "Event used for scrolling down."
    :group 'mouse
    :type 'symbol
    :set 'mouse-wheel-change-button)

  (defcustom mouse-wheel-up-event
    (if (or (featurep 'w32-win) (featurep 'ns-win))
	'wheel-down
      'mouse-5)
    "Event used for scrolling up."
    :group 'mouse
    :type 'symbol
    :set 'mouse-wheel-change-button)

This seems already to cater to macOS, so why isn't it working for you?

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