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

From: Kazuhiro Ito <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:35:11 +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!

Stefan and Po Lu, thank you for your answers and sorry for my
misreading.

It is not a bug, so I'm closing the issue.

-- 
Kazuhiro Ito