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

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:56:21 +0800

Po Lu <[email-masked]> writes:

> 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.

A `wheel-up' event that is used for scrolling down.  Sorry!