Subject: bug#72585: 31.0.50; inconsistency between mouse-wheel-buttons and mouse-wheel-[down/up]-event

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:58:49 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Kazuhiro Ito <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 11:22:54 +0900
>> 
>> 
>> mouse-wheel-down-event and mouse-wheel-up-event default value are
>> `mouse-4` and `mouse-5`, respectively.  But mouse-wheel-buttons's
>> default is
>> ((4 . wheel-up) (5 . wheel-down) (6 . wheel-left) (7 . wheel-right)) .
>> 
>> Is this inconsistency intended?
>
> Adding Stefan and Po Lu.  Any comments?

It's intended, as by a series of historical accidents Emacs has a
`wheel-down event that is used for scrolling down and vice versa.