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

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Message #16 received at 71830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 71830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#71830: 30.0.60: "'wheel-up/down/left/right' events" in
 suboptimal place in NEWS?
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 05:33:05 -0700

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> 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.

Thanks, Eli has fixed it in commit 53dcf2b9492.

I subsequently moved some more items in commit c95066bf188.

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