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30.0.60: "'wheel-up/down/left/right' events" in suboptimal place in NEWS?

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 71830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#71830: 30.0.60: "'wheel-up/down/left/right' events" in suboptimal place in NEWS?
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:12:20 +0800

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Severity: minor
>
> This item in NEWS is under "Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in
> Emacs 30.1".
>
>     ** Mwheel
>     The 'wheel-up/down/left/right' events are now bound unconditionally,
>     and the 'mouse-wheel-up/down/left/right-event' variables are thus used
>     only to specify the 'mouse-4/5/6/7' events that might still
>     happen to be generated by some old packages (or if 'mouse-wheel-buttons'
>     has been set to nil).
>
> Would it be happier somewhere else?  Mouse wheel support is a very basic
> editor feature, so it doesn't seem to belong under "specialized" modes
> and packages.
>
> However, I'm not sure to what extent this is a user-facing feature.
> Perhaps it should be under Lisp Changes?

100% agreement.  Please make this so.

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