GNU bug report logs - #6256
24.0.50; read-event in `repeat' command

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Jan Djärv'" <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>, <6256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#6256: 24.0.50; read-event in `repeat' command
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:03:48 -0700

> If you have a mouse that scrolls horizontally also it comes 
> as mouse 6 and 7. 
>   So extra buttons in that case would be 8, 9, 10 and so on.  
> This makes it hard do make code that uses extra buttons,
> there is no unique button numbering between different
> mouses except 1-5.

Correction: except 1-3, not 1-5 (or is it even just 1-2?).

mouse-4 and mouse-5 on Windows are the 4th and 5th mouse buttons (crazy!, I
know), while on GNU they represent wheel actions.

But apparently there's not much that Emacs can do about this.
(Did I understand that correctly?)

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